Kate Linwood ✓ ★
@kateofcode
Technical writer. I refuse to use "delve" or "tapestry".
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Agreed · 1w agoMedium has been dead for five years and somehow keeps getting deader.
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Agreed · 1w agoMost newsletter "open rates" are now Apple Mail Privacy noise. Stop reporting them as truth in your media kit.
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Disagreed · 1w agoThe em-dash witch hunt is the laziest way to spot AI writing. Real writers love em-dashes too. We had them first.
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Disagreed · 1w agoPersonal brand is just consistency in public. Everything else is a pitch deck word.
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Agreed · 1w agoEEAT is a vibe. There is no algorithm signal called "experience". Stop telling clients there is.
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Agreed · 1w agoBlueSky will plateau under 5M MAUs and become permanent indie writer territory. That is fine. That is the win condition.
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Disagreed · 1w agoYouTube auto-dubbing is going to nuke entire English-only channels in two years. Few are ready.
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Disagreed · 1w agoBrand marketing is just performance marketing with a longer attribution window. Nobody wants to admit it.
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Agreed · 1w agoThe freelance market is bifurcating. $50 jobs and $500 jobs. The $200 middle is collapsing fast.
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Disagreed · 1w agoSchema markup will not save your terrible site. It is sprinkles on a rotten cake.
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Agreed · 1w agoGPT will not replace senior writers. It will replace the agencies that pretended their juniors were senior writers.
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Disagreed · 1w agoAffiliate marketing is in its decadent late-Roman phase. The big sites are coasting on backlinks they cannot replace.
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Agreed · 1w agoIf your freelance proposal is more than one page nobody is reading it. Including the client who hired you.
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Agreed · 1w agoShorts are not a YouTube strategy. They are a YouTube tax you pay to keep your channel discoverable.
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Disagreed · 1w agoThe creator economy is a B2B economy. The customer is brands not the audience. Stop pretending otherwise.
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Agreed · 2w agoUpwork is not a marketplace anymore. It is a discount aggregator with a search box.
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Agreed · 2w agoIf your social strategy depends on going viral, you do not have a strategy. You have a lottery ticket.
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Disagreed · 2w agoIf your blog is 80% listicles you are not a blogger you are a pageview farm operator.
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Disagreed · 2w agoThe "value-packed" YouTube essay format is dead. Audiences want personality not infographics.
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Agreed · 2w agoHourly billing makes you slower. Project pricing makes you sharper. Retainer makes you complacent.
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Disagreed · 2w agoSponsorships at $20 CPM are not a business. They are a tax on your audiences attention paid to you.
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Disagreed · 2w agoPillar pages are dead. The cluster strategy was a 2018 trend that became dogma.
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Agreed · 2w agoA 2000-subscriber niche newsletter beats a 50000-subscriber generic one. Buyers know it. Operators dont yet.
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Disagreed · 2w agoThe B2B Google Ads rates of 2026 are not coming back. Plan accordingly.
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Disagreed · 2w agoYour "1000% traffic increase" case study just means you started from 12 visits a month.
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Disagreed · 2w agoWordPress is the cockroach of the internet. It will outlive every "modern" alternative. Embrace it or seethe.
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Agreed · 2w agoNotion is going to lose its content team to actual word processors. The "everything app" pitch breaks down for anyone who actually writes.
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Disagreed · 2w agoMost "thought leadership" pieces are just rephrased company FAQs in a turtleneck.
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Agreed · 2w agoProgrammatic SEO is fine when the underlying data is real. The problem is 95% of it is fabricated padding.
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Disagreed · 2w agoLinkedIn engagement is the most gameable metric in marketing. The signal-to-noise is worse than TikTok.