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J.K. Lund's avatar

I really love the factoid about Popeye

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Arjit Raj's avatar

Yes! When I first came to know about it, I was also surprised.

By the way, thanks for reading till the end. (While writing such articles the thought of "no-one would read... this has become too long" always keeps going in my mind.)

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J.K. Lund's avatar

This crosses my mind too. I have resolved to capping most essays at around 1200 words, with many capped at 900.

I think substack notes is going to push the platform to favor shorter pieces.

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Arjit Raj's avatar

I considered this route of capping. But I was finding not doing justice to the topic on which I was writing. So, to meet the needs of subscribers I started producing short 1-minute videos: Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. Let's see how it goes. Quite bullish on the notes feature as well.

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J.K. Lund's avatar

That's a good idea, I toyed with the idea of a YT channel...but I dislike YT, so that didn't last long.

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