One year on Substack 🎉

Blogging is an essential part of my mental and digital workflow — thank you for being part of it

Friends,

I started blogging about polls and electoral politics 4 years ago while I was still in college. Back then, I posted updates in a maze of stripped-bare HTML pages and tried my hand at statistics and computer programming to predict the 2016 Democratic primary. Things went well. Then I tried to predict the 2016 presidential election. Things went less well, but I learned some valuable skills along the way.

I learned then that blogging is an essential part of my workflow. It helps me formulate, reconsider and refine my ideas. I also like to think I know things worth sharing with other people. Evidently some of y’all agree!

Since I’m a conversational thinker living in a digital world, a newsletter was the logical next step for my blogging. I tried a few different strategies both for post cadence and newsletter platforms and started distributing letters in earnest in the spring of 2018. Back then, I cross-posted updates between my website and a customized HTML template for emails. It …