I like reading your posts, and I know each of them takes considerable effort. If you want to grow readership, probably the longer posts are the ones that might do that. It seems most people who have big Substack followings typically write medium to longer posts ... some that I follow are Noah Smith, Ethan Mollick, Meghan Daum, Matt Yglesias. If you could ever get someone with a bigger following to link to your work, that would likely lead to more readers.
I try to read all your posts and have for years. I miss some of the classroom connections you did earlier. I prefer the longer more in-depth posts to the briefed by data posts. I sometimes skip parts of the briefed by data posts, but rarely skip any of the longer posts. Thanks for all your efforts.
I like any data analysis.... To grow readership, one thing I have seen is doing guest posting on a 'big following' Substacker. You get hyped by that writer, then you post, people come over here, and there you go. I think that a mix a longer and shorter is good re: posting. I've realised that I read Substack WAY less than I want to these days ("the job" has really brought me to the sub-basement re: energy, introversion-drain, and overwhelm). [Also: a Zoom with you! Ha ha! Better a "beer" and some fries.]
The posts are great. I only follow Matt Taibbi on Substack and don't really read him, just listen to his weekly podcast, so I'm likely not a typical target audience member, but Matt's suggestion makes sense - maybe less posts but one or two longer ones. I really liked the post where Tom analyzed the data in the NYTimes article.
I like reading your posts, and I know each of them takes considerable effort. If you want to grow readership, probably the longer posts are the ones that might do that. It seems most people who have big Substack followings typically write medium to longer posts ... some that I follow are Noah Smith, Ethan Mollick, Meghan Daum, Matt Yglesias. If you could ever get someone with a bigger following to link to your work, that would likely lead to more readers.
I try to read all your posts and have for years. I miss some of the classroom connections you did earlier. I prefer the longer more in-depth posts to the briefed by data posts. I sometimes skip parts of the briefed by data posts, but rarely skip any of the longer posts. Thanks for all your efforts.
I like any data analysis.... To grow readership, one thing I have seen is doing guest posting on a 'big following' Substacker. You get hyped by that writer, then you post, people come over here, and there you go. I think that a mix a longer and shorter is good re: posting. I've realised that I read Substack WAY less than I want to these days ("the job" has really brought me to the sub-basement re: energy, introversion-drain, and overwhelm). [Also: a Zoom with you! Ha ha! Better a "beer" and some fries.]
The posts are great. I only follow Matt Taibbi on Substack and don't really read him, just listen to his weekly podcast, so I'm likely not a typical target audience member, but Matt's suggestion makes sense - maybe less posts but one or two longer ones. I really liked the post where Tom analyzed the data in the NYTimes article.