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Mari, the Happy Wanderer's avatar

Dang! I missed you and your insightful analysis of basically whatever topic you tackle. You are right that humans make better gatekeepers than algorithms, because most of them care about quality. So glad you’re back, because I may not be a gatekeeper, but I care about quality too!

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Mike Hind's avatar

Best thing I've read for days, Dan. The struggle to be seen, yet not be sucked into adding (typically nothing new) to Latest Thing chatter is grim. I've been doing my best and sometimes even partially 'succeeding', but it sometimes feels like the most thankless approach. In my own post yesterday I warned paying subscribers that I may be switching tack completely (because I'm writing a book). This is because the pleasure of learning and researching something real has overtaken my desire to be an also-ran Substack chin-stroking purveyor of yet more 'essays'. Thanks for articulating all of this so helpfully.

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