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My Dumb Hobby
This is my keyboard, the Keychron Q1, and I've been using it for about a year, but it&
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When I’m Coming Back to Twitter
It’s been 18 days since I’ve used Twitter, and I think I’ve hit the point where I feel like I’m missing it enough to venture back. In those 18 days I’ve posted here a ton, have made great strides with figuring out what I want to do with YouTube longer
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Blogging Like It’s 2010
2 weeks ago today I decided that I wasn’t having fun on Twitter anymore, so I took a break, and outside of posting a couple movie and book reviews, I literally have not gone on to see what’s happening (if you’ve @‘d or DMd me, I’m sorry).
But it turns out
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The Cost of Switching
I'm pretty solidly in the Apple camp across my phone, tablet, watch, and desktop, and Apple's ecosystem famously makes that experience better the more you go all in on their products. There's nothing wrong with this, and it's a big reason for their success, as consumers reap
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So You Want to Get Into Mechanical Keyboards…
I was super happy when I got to write this for The Sweet Setup!
We love keyboards here at The
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Things Might Look Wrong for Bit…
Welcome to the latest look for Birchtree!
I wanted the site to get a bit more adventurous, maybe even a bit more divisive. I hope most of you like the new look, but I'm honestly okay with some people not digging it. If this site were a big business or I was making
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Birchler’s Hierarchy of Apps
The world is tough if you are someone who is prone to switch apps. It seems like there's
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Why Discord Isn't a Viable Twitter Alternative (for me)
I'm not really convinced when people say that things like Discord or Slack are a good replacement for Twitter. "Angry about Twitter? Why not find a good Discord?" I keep hearing this, but no thanks.
This has nothing to do with Discord being bad, I use Discord and Slack to talk
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I Love Ghost
I moved Birchtree from Wordpress to Ghost back in December 2019 and just over 2 years into the move, I can say I'm exceptionally happy with my decision. I don't have a big article to back this up, and I don't think Ghost is right for everyone, but I
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My Rules for Twitter
A couple weeks ago I decided to stop using Twitter for a few days. A few days went by and I felt really good, so I kept going. It's been 2 weeks and I just reinstalled Tweetbot on my iPhone.
I really enjoyed taking a quick break from social media. I felt calmer,
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How Twitter Changes My Brain
It recently dawned on me that I've used Twitter basically every day for over a decade, and while
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The Infinite Game
I read The Infinite Game a few years ago, and it really stuck with me in ways I didn't necessarily expect at the time. I won't summarize the whole book here, but one of the core ideas is that the game you're playing in business is not the product,
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HomePods + Apple TV: Fun, but I Had to Move On
This was going to be a very long post, but I got bored reading my own post, so I threw
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Introducing Quick Reviews, a Website for Making Beautiful Micro-Reviews for Books, Movies, or Whatever
Check it out here!
What is This?
Every few weeks I post something like this on Twitter:
This was a
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Side Project Revenue Breakdown for 2021
2021 was easily my best year for side projects ever, and as I sit here at the start of the new year and look over my reports for 2021, I'm incredibly happy & proud of what I'm starting to achieve with these projects. I'm not sharing exact numbers today,
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Housekeeping on the Newsletter Change
I wanted to address a couple things that I didn’t mention in my original post announcing the newsletter changes. No one has asked these yet, but I wanted to get ahead of them anyway, just in case.
How Many Emails am I Getting, Exactly?
You will still get 1 email per week from me,
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What Should I Do With My Newsletter?
Let's do some open sharing of information…here's my subscriber count for my Birch Bark newsletter over the course of 2021.
I moved to Substack from Mailchimp in December last year and brought my nearly-400 subs with me. Quick shout out to the value of owning my customer list. I&
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Share What You Know
There's an old joke that on the internet no one knows you're a dog. It's a classic, one of the greats, and I'd like to add my own twist on this: on the internet no one knows you don't know what the fuck you'