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A few years ago I used to write long-form analysis about media, technology, and business with my friend and colleague, Matthew Ball over at OG newsletter visionary Jason Hirschhorn’s MediaREDEF. I stopped writing a while ago and have always missed it, less for the Serotonin boost from people liking my writing and more for the clarity I found in having to write out my thoughts.
Meanwhile, this past year, during COVID I found myself increasingly bored. There are only so many times you can doomscroll Twitter. Only so much Tik Tok you can watch before your significant other starts fearing for your mental sanity. And like a lot of people I became worried about my media consumption. So I started training myself to spend less time searching for the next great Twitter dunk and more time looking for meaningful and interesting data and graphics with real nutritional value.
So now, I’ve decided to come back to the keyboard and give writing another go. Since it’s 2020 that means Substack and my own newsletter! It gets sent out regularly, always with a chart or graphic that inspires the post along with my thoughts explaining the Trends, Analysis, Lies, and Statistics that make the chart interesting to me. I also tweet out a screenshot summary form of the posts on my Twitter, @tweettal.
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