Hello, again

Hello. You might have noticed that things look a little different around here; that’s because Good Screen is now hosted on Buttondown. To cut a long story short, Substack has a Nazi problem, and like many other newsletters I decided to leave the platform. I don’t need Substack’s obsession over growth and engagement, or its weird Twitter competitor, and I don’t want to be in the Nazi bar. Buttondown has been a straightforward place to call home, and the people behind it personally helped out with the move (thanks, Justin and team). You don’t need to do anything; such is the joy of email being so open.

Anyway, it’s 2024, I’ve spent almost the entire first month of this year being sick, and I am once again trying something different with this newsletter. Last year I gave you Good Content; like a lot of my attempts to write at least one thing a month, it didn’t really end up working out. So I’m going to try doing something different, again: taking inspiration from some of my favourite newsletters and blogs, I’m going to do a bit of everything.

I’m going to share pieces that I’ve read and found interesting, often with a little extra flavour by me, à la Daring Fireball’s Linked List. I’m going to talk about Good Content like I used to, but probably more in the vein of this early Good Screen piece on Cyberpunk 2077, or in really small bites like I did in my year end piece. I’m also going to try hard to have an interesting take on something every now and then — probably technology and media, but we do have an election around the corner here in the UK, so you never know.

I hope that interests you enough to stick around; unlike with Substack, I’m going to stick to Buttondown’s defaults and not let it track whether you read this. If you like it, I’d love it if you could share it, but there’s no pressure for you to do so — this is just a silly little email sent by a silly little me.

The first one of these I want to do is the Linked List thing, and I'm going to get that to you as soon as possible; when that will actually happen depends on whether I feel any better soon, but hopefully in the next week or so.

Sorry for being a bit inside baseball this time around! It’ll be business as usual next time, I promise. Take care until then.