From time to time, I find myself wanting to share something that doesn’t quite rise to the level of a full reflection, like a short observation, a quick thought, a link worth noting, but not something that needs to be emailed to the thousands of you that subscribe to this blog.
To make room for that kind of writing, I’ve added a new category here called Brief Notes. Posts in that category will appear on the site and may be shared on social media, but they will not be sent out by email.
My hope is that this respects your inbox, while still allowing me a place to post something that in previous years might have shown up on a microblogging site or social media.
Nothing else is changing. Longer reflections will continue to arrive by email as they always have. Brief Notes are simply a lighter layer alongside them.
I’ve been trying to figure out how to do this for a good while. It turns out that AI chatbots are less than useless when you ask them for help. But tonight I finally found the buried setting I’d been seeking!
As always, thank you for reading, and for the care you bring to this shared space.
I, for one, will be sad not to get your notes on my email, where they were a bright spot in the annoying masses of unwelcome *%#** that I get every day. Not sure how to look for them in the new format?
Thanks for the kind words – let’s give this a try? They’ll show up on all the socials, just not by email.
I’m thinking of much shorter posts, old school Twitter style, and that just seems wrong to send out by email.
Longer stuff still get handled the normal way.
Thanks for the heads up! I’m always interested to see what you have to say.