I think I’ve been unconsciously negatively prioritizing traffic growth on ribbonfarm. The marginal cost of traffic (overages on my hosting plan) is not worth the marginal value of new readers. It’s a kind of stock buyback. Growth without a good idea driving it is a net liability.
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Then a few changes happened, largely as a natural maturing as well as probably your conscious experimentation aligned to your consulting and other focus areas. To me this phase was up to when #breakingsmart and the storm format became regular 3/
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Meanwhile #tempobook and BSE had happened. The phase 2 changes were: fresh ideas and tones from others, overall mellowing down in two ways: useful advice type content and serious takes with humor and snark as optional spice. 4/
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