Here’s an interesting idea: don’t use your editing time to polish a post (i.e., tightening up sentences, making line edits, rephrasing, etc.).
Instead, use it to do more research. For example, find a better example—one that surprises you (and, hopefully, the reader). You could also look for a related concept to tie into the piece.
Or dabble in art direction. Add imagery to the piece—a picture, a graph, a table, a cartoon, a low-res screenshot of a document. Anything!
When you do this, you’re making decisions that develop and strengthen the overall piece. You show more of your personality and flair by what you decide to add—what you find interesting, who to quote, what you knew and didn’t know.
This is a suggestion from Venkatesh Rao, who elaborates, “Just outsource polish to editors. Unless you’re trying novel literary experiments, polish is a commodity skill.” You’ll also, eventually, be able to outsource editing to A.I.