Besides twitter, other thing I've been doing a lot of in the last 2y while slacking off on blogging has been my breaking smart newsletter (which is mostly in twitter-inspired thread form). Newsletters are easier than blogging, but man are they a blackhole for meta-organization.
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I have very poor situation awareness of what I put in my newsletters. With ribbonfarm, I have a pretty good map in my head about what I wrote even 10 years ago. It's all internally linked up too. With breaking smart, I can't even remember last month. breakingsmart.com/en/season-2/se
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Though I do some backlinking and linking from outside, the email newsletter archives are highly link-impoverished compared to blogs. This is why recall is hard too. A reader put together these summary notes. I don't recognize half of the issues.
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Email newsletters are a blackhole (and a necessary evil as a channel you control) but not as bad as twitter, where I really have no idea what I've been tweeting about or what my good threads are. The ones captured by are a partial snapshot
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But my 2 year slacker-sabbatical from blogging as my core medium is probably drawing to a close. Now taking twitter+newsletter ideas back to blogging where I will help spark a great new renaissance in blogging 😎
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