Natalie
2 min readSep 10, 2022

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Mitch - believe it or not - you inspired me; a very old post of yours mentioned it.

I started a very small listing, in my second month - sometime in July. Everyone was talking about a tribe - so I felt so touched by folks like you who kept supporting me, I could not let my mind forget. (At the time I had my personal email linked to medium) -- so didn't think of subscribing yet -- and bombardment of emails don't work for me, bc my mind needs to have a "clean mailbox" and notifications distract me like you wouldn't believe. 😂

I use Excel, have my names that I can sort alphabetically, and I update the date I last read; each month under a column I keep adding "1" as they interact with me, and I created a "checkbox" column for the ones I need to reciprocate.

It's grown -- and I think I want to create a "stop point."

This spreadsheet has grown into a whole project; some of you would laugh. But I have a tab now where I'm doing an analysis of headlines; I'm checking how earning are correlating with read times -- that I'm a little frustrated I'm doing as I'm seeing disparities and I hope by the end of the month it clears up - but I just started that since a few in our tribe have said they are seeing numbers drop.

But for the one column of showing me when Iast read and who has engaged with me -- I find it incredibly useful.

People may think I have a fantastic memory - I don't at all. This helps me keep track and I feel good knowing I haven't forgotten them. or rather when I do - it serves as a huge - go and give them some love!!! ;-)

Thanks for asking!!!

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Natalie
Natalie

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Wife, mother, teacher, people/music lover and writer: sharing bits of her soul one story at a time.

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