Newsletter Intro

I decided a long time ago that I didn't want fBugs to be a "news of the week reaction" channel. I realize why people make those - they're easy when you don't know what else to talk about. But I have enough things that I want to say that I don't need that.

That said, there are times when I feel like I ought to say something. Mainly:

1. When I've made a video on a topic, and new information has come to since it went live that I would have included, if I'd known about it at the time.

2. When I do some research on something I want to include in a video, but it ends up not getting used. This is usually because I try to make the narratives in my videos coherent (I don't always succeed, I know, but believe me, my earlier drafts are often much, much worse on that score). I think it's easier to communicate if there's a narrative through-line in a video rather than a laundry-list of topics that take very different amounts of time. Sometimes there are things I'd like to talk about, but it just kills the flow of the video. And,

3. When something happens in the news that a bunch of people ask me to comment on, but I don't think a video is the best format to talk about it, either because I'm already working on my next video(s) and I don't want to lose momentum, it's something time-sensitive enough I don't want to go through the "dealing with filming" process, or I think it's something that would be a lot easier to talk about in text.

So, I've created this free mailing list as an outlet for those topics.

If that sounds interesting to you, please subscribe, and if it doesn't, then thanks for reading this far.

-Carl