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Paul Combs's avatar

Great news!

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Simon Dillon's avatar

Splendid news. I wish you all the very best, and hope to be head hunted to contribute. :)

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Eric Pierce's avatar

I can guarantee it. :)

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Mikhail Skoptsov's avatar

This sounds interesting, and I wish you good luck!

I think this might be the kind-of site where my articles would fit well, so I'm hoping you might open it up for contributions in the future.

One thing I'd recommend is taking more advantage of this newsletter to promote the new site's content. So, in addition to updating subscribers about the site's progress, when a new article comes out on All the Fanfare, you could publish a post here with a link to the new piece and some additional commentary.

Additionally, given how many articles are coming out on Medium Fanfare, I think you should consider posting recommended links to them in some of your newsletters as well. Like, do some curation to highlight what you think are the best or most interesting works. I know you mention that this publ-n has nothing to do with Medium Fanfare, but I think it would be an easy way to generate newsletters and potentially attract more subscribers.

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Eric Pierce's avatar

Thanks for the comments! I will definitely be plugging everything related to All the Fanfare here, including any articles published. No fear on that account.

I did experiment with promoting articles on Fanfare (Medium) on this newsletter because it makes a lot of sense. But in practice, nobody clicked on any of the links. So I'd rather put time toward things that move the needle.

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Kevin Alexander's avatar

Like I mentioned the other day, "The 'Wait But Why' of pop culture" is one heck of an elevator pitch. I'm excited to see where this takes you (and all of us)!

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Nicci Kadilak's avatar

Sounds super fun! Best of luck!

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BC Heneghan's avatar

Sounds cool. Good luck with the project! I look forward to seeing how it develops.

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Grant Bogle's avatar

Awesome! I applaud the push against the AI-driven deluge of content and an intentional effort to make sure every piece is thoroughly researched. It's not the easy way, but I think intentionally embracing the hard things that take time is a vital part of humanity that we're going to lose as AI takes over.

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Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

Your skittles analogy is very apt. And I bet Rutger Hauer’s replicant character ate all the skittles he could murder-steal from The Man.

Can’t wait to see how your venture plays out!

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Reuben Salsa's avatar

Go Eric! Great dream, great idea. Wishing you the best of luck. You got my follow!

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Robin A Henderson's avatar

Sounds interesting! I look forward to reading your new content.

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Eric Pierce's avatar

Pop culture is everything. :D

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