SOME NEW THINGS
NOTEBOOK GIVEAWAY: I am giving away a MOO notebook at the end of December 2022 to the winner of a draw. It’s a A5 sized hardcovered notebook with dotted pages. Each H.A.T. subscriber automatically gets one entry into this draw if they are a subscriber as of the end of December 31, 2022.
However… you can get more entries towards the notebook draw by doing any (or all) of the following:
Each December 2022 post on which you leave a comment will earn you an extra two chances at the draw. For example, if there are 12 posts in December and you leave a comment on each post then you can get 24 extra entries into the draw. PLEASE note: it needs to be a real, substantial comment, not just a couple of words, OK?
If you recruit a new email subscriber to How About This during the month of December then you can get 10 extra draw entries per subscriber. In order to get the extra 10 entries, the new subscriber will have to E-mail me at markdykeman@gmail.com and they will have to tell me the email address of the person who recruited them. This email address must be the email address used to subscribe to How About This.
SUBSTACK RECOMMENDATIONS: If you publish your own Substack newsletter and you are enjoying How About This, please consider creating a Substack Recommendation for this newsletter as 45 other newsletter publishers have done. I would love to hit 50 Recommendations by the end of this month - 5 more to go!
OVER THERE (found elsewhere)
This is an interesting essay from
about the value of peer reviews in science. I’m not an academic so I can’t evaluate the veracity of the argument but it’s certainly an interesting take.Jillian Hess at
tells us about the Wilde family’s friendship album.Alison at
talks about the relationship between reading and being a librarian (it might not be what you would expect).Have another think about erasers (from )
From the
newsletter, Mark Delong writes about Substack’s most recent efforts to build out functionality to support newsletter publishers, with particular benefit to publishers with large (and paid) audiences and how publishers with different goals might be perceiving these moves. I am also watching with interest from my home office (usually my easy chair in my living room) in Atlantic Canada.Bryn at
makes me want to buy myself a science kit for Christmas.Soaring Twenties Social Club:
Omnibus #46 - the usual weekly round up, a great diversity of writers and creators working here.
BACK HERE (the past week’s posts)
Monday featured the interview with writer Karen Dean.
Tuesday featured the interview with Soaring Twenties Social Club member and writer Tony Zentelis.
Wednesday featured my essay about shooting the potatoes.
CROSS-PROMOTION(S)
Refind (referral link) is a service that recommends several links to posts, articles and websites several times per week (even daily), tailored to your preferences. You can find a lot of great reading using Refind, please consider signing up!
RELEASE
Time to release the H.A.T. Scouts for another week! And remember, it’s always better to be a H.A.T.T.E.R. than a hater.
Loved Mark’s newsletter (and the thoughtful comments) on what Substack is offering and should we really be here.
I’m going to have to go read that peer review essay, aren’t I? 😂 Le sigh.