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Google Maps Photo Contributions

Photo contributions that have quietly accumulated view counts for years. Same pattern as the YouTube clips — no idea which ones do numbers or why.

The content doesn't have to be new

Content doesn't have to be new to be worth posting. The reps are on the process, not the idea: reformat one thing many ways, ship it ugly, measure which version travels, and let the volume do the work.

The Lightbulb Hook

Testing whether a post that narrates the moment of confusion — without naming the insight above the fold — reliably outperforms. One data point so far, and it has a confound.

The Profile-Views Hack

Thirty million automated profile views, three hundred thousand people who looked back, three thousand of them onto my site — and a story that by rights should be my best-performing content but isn't.

Why Feeds Keep Getting Worse

Explore why social media feeds are deteriorating, focusing on issues like algorithm bias and passive consumption, and discover alternatives that emphasize user agency.

YouTube: MX vs ATV Legends Clips

Months of gameplay clips where the amount of work that went in had no visible relationship to which ones did numbers. The data is sitting there and I've never pulled it.