August 4, 2024

🌶️ Welcome to Hot Fudge Sunday

Welcome to the age of Fudge Factor and Hot Fudge Sunday, where deep research and syndication strategies are key.

🙏 And a big thanks to all our sponsors! 🙏

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Welcome to the age of 🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday

🙏 A big thank you to our sponsors. 🙏
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As promised, Hot Fudge Sunday 🤔 💡 🤯 🤓 is (now) a free weekly newsletter and Hot Fudge Daily is now a daily paid newsletter at https://hot.fudge.org in a single easy to reach URL. That’s right, the free weekly edition is posted every… wait for it… Sunday.

Originally, Fudge Sunday weekly newsletter was hosted at a variety of newsletter services until I moved the (badly exported and malformed) archives to fuge.org which was where my much older long form blog post lived. Eventually, I decoupled the archives from Buttondown (which powers Hot Fudge Daily and now Hot Fudge Sunday).

Fudge Factor

Over the coming months, fudge.org will transition to niche posts. Niche posts will go very very deep with a rebrand as “Fudge Factor”.

For example…

Back in 2022, I wondered out loud how impactful OTel would be. I asked at the end of my post…

So, how will OTel factor into the next industrial revolution?

In 2024, OpenTelemetry (OTel) is even more interesting and the packaging of OTel for wider adoption continues. i.e. A.D.O.T.

Curious? Read more here: Fudge Factor

Fudge Factor (2024) by Jay Cuthrell

First edition of my new newsletter on our increasingly connected world

Series Syndication

I will continue to write at fudge.org and hot.fudge.org consistently using P.O.S.S.E. principles.

I will still have a RSS to email syndication enabled. However, “Fudge Factor” content will be niche — and if you want to unsubscribe, no worries.

Buttondown and Activepieces have enabled me to think about my own syndication to LinkedIn and platforms like Flipboard. For more advanced syndication, I might end up going to Automatisch.

We shall see.

Audience Feedback

Ultimately, I think the biggest takeaway is going to be how readership reacts and clicks. Indeed, audience replies to newsletters are endorphins.

This notion of an audience also came up in a 2020 blog post by an actual professional writer, Bruce Sterling. I share it here now, along with another quote without further comment.

“So I came to understand that creative work that pleased the markets did not much affect people personally.“
— Bruce Sterling

“if you want to become original, you should keep an eye out for whatever you don't-have-to”
— Bruce Sterling

Source: https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2020/05/farewell-beyond-beyond/

Note: Some images via Unsplash

Disclosure

I am linking to my disclosure.

Cuthrell Consulting LLC
Attn: Jay Cuthrell
1903 Live Oak St #92
Beaufort, NC 28516-0092

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