A friend got in touch. He was away with the leaders of a training course from around the world, and somebody there mentioned my forthcoming book. Which prompted him to message me.
“I keep on losing touch with all that,” he wrote, “because I don’t use social media. Is there a way to stay in touch with what you’re up to without having to be on LinkedIn?”
I loved this question. Partly because I’m (not entirely) off social media too, and I know how it can feel to want to follow someone’s work without surrendering to the algorithm.
But mostly because the answer is: yes, there is a way. It’s easy.
For the past month and a half I’ve been sending a pop-up email newsletter to people who wanted to hear about A Speccy Man Has a Breakdown as it took shape – the false starts, the drawings that worked, the ones that didn’t, the slow accumulation of something I’m now quite pleased with.
If you’d like to be on that list, there’s a summary of what it is and how to sign up.
(There’s also RSS, of course – another way we can keep up with each other’s outputs without social media.)
My friend also told me he still has a card of one of my magnolia paintings on his desk. “So in one way you’re in view every day.”
Which was nice.
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