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Revisiting Simon Collison's Farewell to Twitter

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I believe the dopamine hit from posting to Twitter’s large audience is addictive and very difficult to put down. And for some people, like Simon, they consider their Twitter audience vital to their work.

Fortunately, I do not care about my audience size. I never have. My blog here has always been my primary way to promote what I’m working on. And it has served me extremely well. I have a relatively small audience but I’m very thankful that small audience has a rather large reach.

I stepped away from Twitter some years back for a few reasons, and in the intervening time have had the chance to reflect on the impulses that would drive me to post previously.

On the flip side, I feel like I’ve really lost touch with a lot of folks and, owing a lot to the pandemic as well enforcing this physically, have really become a shut-in. But I’m working on a ton of interesting things and am considering how to start writing about them more. First for me (which is always good) and then, maybe, for others.