"I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted”-- Joan Didion Odd for a data-centered person but I don’t routinely look at social media tallies. The temptation to write for the mean would likely be overwhelming. The one exception is around the end of the year. Here is a quick run down. Not to focus on me but to encourage you to take a look at your own. The blog: +900% for unique visits +865% for page views +966% average pages per unique visit The most popular entry: Nothing vast enters the world of mortal with a curse--Sophocles. This even outpaced my RSS feed data. If you have your Google analytics turned on you can readily see the top 10 posts and the behavior of everyone interacting on your website/blog. The good bits I recall are the majority of site traffic is coming from organic (60%) and direct (30%) with the latter being a much smaller share--this is what you want or so I am told. Top Twitter engagement for Substack post: Anticipate charity by preventing poverty--Maimonides Top Substack engagement on Substack: Mistaking mirrors for screens: its amplification not reflection I don’t like thinking of writing as a business. But it is curious to see whose eyes are looking at our words. Case in point--I subconsciously describe myself as a writer. I think that although I work as a data analyst, specifically a geospatial analyst, that fact isn’t nearly as important as storytelling. Many colleagues analyze data or have their brain engaged in some folly associated with numeracy and statistics--it is in the telling where things become illuminated. I hope you will visit the blog, maybe explore a few of the stories you missed. My favorite thing is when we have offline conversations. It is all about throwing things into the crucible and examining what remains. Let me know what you track and why. Oh. And have a lovely holiday season!
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