Week 11, 2021 - Sending you a postcard

This week I wrapped up the Advanced Facilitation class, which feels less like an close but an opening of potential futures. As a sign of gratitude and a promise to the universe to walk through these doors that are now open, I started a personal newsletter.

I'm calling it postcard-as-newsletter. Or is it newsletter-as-postcard? It's meant to be read by people who know me in some capacity, with a mix of "here's what I'm up to" and "here's what I'm finding interesting" from various explorations. No custom welcome message or even a logo BUT it's all set up, embedded on my website, announced on Twitter...and all that makes it real. A thing. I'm looking forward to the writing process and hope to get some replies, too.

This all goes against the growing trend of paid subscriptions. I'm sure I'm not alone in having wondered in the past few months if I should be on Substack. Not to make money per se but to claim that piece of digital real estate and look like a person that other people subscribed to.

As I hacked away at the CSS on my site to make the sign-up widget look a little bit nicer, I came up with the postcard metaphor. And as I wrote a few tweets, I realized that all I want is a less haphazhard way to get clearer signals out to my growing circles of loose ties that are overlapping less and less. Ah, clarity feels good.

I'm looking forward to writing the first one.