Letters by Burk #135: Change

Also, platforms, social media, Medium, weight training, and more

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Hi friends,

I am a platform mover.

I’ve always loved trying and experimenting with new platforms. Writing tools, blogging services, newsletters platforms, social media networks, it’s great to try new stuff.

But, of course, the platform is secondary. The content, what you do, what you create, how you create, is much more important than any one platform.

That being said, it is crucial to find the “right” place for your stuff. May that be writing, video content, social media posts, or anything else.

For me, Medium has been the main writing outlet since 2021. Before that, it was WordPress blogging, for the most part. Twitter has been my social media number 1.

That has been changing lately, though.

And change is a good thing sometimes. I’ll dive deeper into that change in a second, first let’s read one fitting quote about change:

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at ch…