One year on Substack
What happened? What did I learn? What will I do differently?
Happy anniversary to me!
Believe it or not, I’ve been publishing this newsletter regularly for 12 months!! How time flies.
I was waiting for Substack to send me an anniversary message, but I suspect I’ll be waiting for that until hell freezes over.
I was never really into blogging. I tried to launch a blog through my own website, but felt very self-conscious about having nothing to say. Some of you may argue that I still don’t have anything to say. You might be right. The difference now is that I’ve stopped worrying about it. I just figure it out. That’s what creators do.
Focus was - and remains - a key challenge for me.
I have a lot of diverse interests, and that definitely counts against you if you’re trying to engage a community of like-minded folks. So when I decided I was going to try to post on a weekly schedule, …