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Big Data Stream?
I post a lot on social media:
And people like it.
Feedback
I’ve had people ask me:
Why don’t you post more often on your newsletter?
Can you share your content outside of social media? I want to reduce my usage because it’s too distracting and doesn’t help me be productive.
and I’ve asked myself:
Why does LinkedIn only allow me to post 1 image?
Why is LinkedIn’s character limit so low?
If I can summarize, the problems to solve are three-fold:
Algorithm
Distraction
Platform Limits
As you know, my main newsletter - 2minutestreaming - is about posts that are strictly up to 2 minutes of reading time. (476 words)
It results in some very polished writing where I spend an absurd amount of time on such a small piece of content.
But on social media, I’m more lax. I write out to my heart’s content.
The truth is that the 2-minute format can be very limiting itself too.
But there’s value in longer-form content too!
I want to:
express free-form thoughts
interview experts in the industry
play around with video content
do polls and engage with the readers
And I do some of that on social media. But it’s not the best place for it.
So this is why I’m creating BigDataStream.
This newsletter will do a few things:
post original tech content, with a focus on the Big Data space and Apache Kafka
give me a medium to talk longer form and build a tighter community
give you a medium to follow my content without the distractions of LinkedIn/X
