How to have the most productive Mondays ever?
Just start a newsletter that announces in its name to the whole world that it will go out every Monday: https://jatan.space/tag/moon-monday 🌝
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Social media, where a teaser post about your article gets a better response than your actual article
I’ve seen this recurring theme on Twitter, LinkedIn, and virtually every microblogging social platform I’ve used. Teasing something exciting you’re working on gets better visibility than when you share that work itself. Here’s an example from the Twitter of yore—which people forget wasn’t all
Newsletter for friends #04: Things and thoughts from October
Hello friends, Continuing to embrace a calmer digital life instead of drowning in the slurp—and now slop—of social media, I’m sharing with you via this web letter some notable things I’ve been up to or enjoyed in October. Reading * How to comment on social media * Technology
Follow my blogs on social media that doesn’t suck!
Look, I hate social networks, especially all mainstream ones like Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and the ilk. And, microblogging is a terribly contextually deprived way to create, absorb, and converse anything. I can’t justify sacrificing my time and efforts on places which degrade my thinking, mental health, and sanity. And
On the gap between voter turnouts in the US and Indian elections
2024 is a national election year for both the US and India. Some web searching led me to check past voter turnouts in both countries, and I was quite surprised with the numbers: The US (Source) * 2004: 60.1% * 2008: 62.5% * 2012: 58% * 2016: 59.2% * 2020: 66.9%