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One year on Substack

One year on Substack

What happened? What did I learn? What will I do differently?

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Aug 18, 2024
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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.

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Photo by Angèle Kamp on Unsplash

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.

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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, …

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