What if the essay was the product? Here are seven pieces that stand on their own. insights.indiethinkers.com/p/think-week...

December was the highest traffic month for Indie Thinkers thus far, and I've only spent $20 on marketing for an experiment. Excited to invest more in the community in 2025 and help more writers grow organically.

Inspired by @andrei.blue Finally got dark mode setup.

2024 is about to finish, and once again, SEO hasn't died. This is the evolution of Organic Search as a Marketing Channel in the last year across the US, UK and Germany. The only traffic source ahead is "Direct" 🔥 Remember this when negotiating & securing buy-in for your SEO initiatives next year!

"Technology was supposed to free us, yet in many ways, it's made us clones. We spend so much time scrolling the algorithm, we've become the algorithm." suzanneheyn.substack.com/p/dont-live-...

December 19th, 2024 1. Never stop asking "why?" 2. The 2024 state of social media 3. Truth Terminal AI www.indiethinkers.com/p/never-stop...

no traffic like organic traffic

1/🧵This week's SEO TL;DR rounds up the year with some 2025 predictions from some of my favourite SEOs... @aleyda.bsky.social @lilyray.nyc @nickleroy.bsky.social @mordyoberstein.bsky.social @garrettsussman.bsky.social & @nitinsawhney.bsky.social 🔮 Subscribe for weekly tips seotldr.substack.com

a few tweaks on mobile 🦋 #sideprojects #buildinpublic

December 17th, 2024 - How to Be More Agentic - Collect memories, not milestones - The Internet Is Unusable www.indiethinkers.com/archive/dece...

Did you know you can now sign up to @indiethinkers.com with your bluesky account? Decentralized social media will be a great fuel source for all indie creators. Are you a writer on Bluesky aiming to grow your audience? Check out www.indiethinkers.com

You can now sign up for an account on IndieThinkers.com using your Bluesky handle. Your entire profile and following comes with you. Shout out to @mubashariqbal.com for the idea.

Need a break? Take a Think Week? insights.indiethinkers.com/p/think-week...

Did you know you can see a list of the sites you engage with the most by typing this into Chrome… 🧑‍💻 chrome://site-engagement/ It's fascinating to see the difference between work (pictured) and personal. Should I be worried ChatGPT is top of the list (I'm human, I swear)? What's top of your list?

New Today: - How to Monetize Your Mind - When Convenience Kills - The Case for Nonlinear Goal Setting - Great Campaigns Start With Great Copy - The State of Design, In Four Parts - What the humans like is responsiveness www.indiethinkers.com/archive/dece...

"Nature rarely moves in straight lines, and neither does our personal and professional development." — Anne-Laure Le Cunff

Bluesky has passed Substack traffic on Indie Thinkers.

We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters. — Tomas Pueyo

Stoked to be on the front page of read.cv 🙌🏽

Almost time for lighter fluid.

What if writers could launch essays just like developers launch products? Indie Thinkers is a new platform designed to help writers gain a new audience and introduce readers to remarkable content.

Got “Essay Launches” setup in discord. If you want an invite let me know.

There is one thing that confuses me. On Bluesky journalists are treated like Gods. And yet in reality, More than 30 Substack publishers now earn more than a million dollars per annum. Do I want to read networks of journalists in some echo chamber serving corporate masters & tycoon owners.

"AI is often most useful where we're already expert enough to spot its mistakes, yet least helpful in the deep work that made us experts in the first place." www.indiethinkers.com/p/15-times-t...

If there isn't a deep connection to what you're doing every single day, it's best to change course as fast as possible. However, sometimes you don't need to change direction but just need to turn on the windshield wipers.

Top posts from yesterday: 1. The Parental Notion 2. Admitting What Is Obvious 3. The Greatest Threat to Writers www.indiethinkers.com/archive/dece...

"In this hyper-Americanized GET AFTER IT MOTHER ****ER!!! world we live in, the pursuit of more is not just part of our culture, but thought to eventually give us happiness." — Thomas Kuegler

Don’t have a ton of traffic yet. But these numbers are encouraging. Once people arrive, they find value. (not shown below, but CTR is 32%)

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I kept playing the game, but increasingly grew to be frustrated with the fact that there was no end to the game. Playing the game seemed to matter more than what you actually did and especially so the higher you got within a company. https://pmillerd.com/learn-the-game-dont-become-the-game/

Looking good on mobile ✨

It’s hard to know that you’re headed in the right direction. I’ve never really considered how being paranoid about “being wrong” can be healthy. I think this is why I’m always asking people I admire one important question: What am I not doing that I should be?

( don't skip dinner )

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I hope #Bluesky remains an outlier.

I made a starter pack for #Substack writers and would love to keep adding to it so please hmu if you fit the criteria or know someone who does! go.bsky.app/16pXMn8

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