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I need a few volunteers to identify best posts from breaking smart newsletter. If you've been a subscriber for at least a few years, and are willing to scan my 121 row spreadsheet and mark the ones you thought were good, DM me. Considering an ebook.
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I have a sort of weird narrative memory blindness with respect to my breaking smart writing. I have 141 newsletter issues since 2015, but unlike with ribbonfarm, for the life of me I can't remember what 80% of them are about, and staring at the titles doesn't really help.
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Just did a scroll through my Gmail. Faves: Against waldenponding Streamtime GUTS Crash early crash often The universe will now explode for your pleasure Also - fuck there's gold in there. The tragedy of emails poorly archived... Please don't move everything to substack
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Yes but I worry for the long term discoverability / indexability of an email platform... Referencing your blogging thread the other day where you suggested moving all to substack. Core long term value in owning and hosting the content somewhere I think
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well, right now, it's on 2 email platforms and nowhere on a personal site anyway... I suppose I could do the grunt work of putting it all on breakingsmart.com 1 email at a time, but... kinda don't feel like the schlep is worth it. I'll be compiling into 1-2 ebooks though.
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that's why I'm watching gatsby etc. I think the answer is a markdown bundle piped into a static site in some sort of survivalist level robustness... ultimately I believe in content-centric discoverability/addressability rather than host-centric
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yeah - not sure if gatsby is the right tech for that (v confused by it frankly) but agree on the ultimate goal of canonical text piped to all the platforms (and agree hosting is the wrong level of ownership to care about)
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