Richard Allardice

Writer. Information architect. Professional noticer and fixer of content woes.

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If you’d to follow my work or keep in touch, subscribe to my newsletter. 📬 It’s ace, promise.

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How many times do you need to repeat something to someone before it sinks in? Potentially in excess of SIX THOUSAND. That’s how many times.

How did I get to 6000? Read on in the latest newsletter (which also explains the “food” and “reach” zones):

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@FergusTHW @thwupbooks Is that a mirror in the background? Because if it is, you may actually all be vampires.

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New post 📮, continuing a theme: Notes from a small house II. Features reverse sibling psychology, photodynamic face-melting therapy, and artificial intelligence muttering to itself in the next room.

https://t.co/XrTTYBGIX8

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New post 🔮 on the impossibility of truly knowing what you’re getting yourself into with a new job. Warning: Includes drugs, weapons and mistrust. 🙀

https://t.co/q6IaqXPcrp

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New post 😎 on stubbornness, conviction and clarity – a story of finally getting reading glasses, after much resistance.

https://t.co/Pcsnx0Xb59

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“It is your inbox and your own private antisocial network. You are the algorithm. This is the core reason why the noisier the rest of the internet gets, the more popular the quiet, humble newsletter becomes.”

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Enjoyed this piece by @davepell, on the understated, enduring success of the newsletter (and email).

https://t.co/AqVdro8MqE

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“You get to absorb and consider the contents of a newsletter without the rest of the internet chiming in, telling you what to think while puking out tweets, replies, posts, comments, photos, videos, news, and memes at a pace that pulverizes human attentional capacity.”

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@RamosAuthor Thanks, appreciate it. 🙂

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Newsletter #26: 🔬 The smallness of a small house, and the goings-on inside 🏠

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Notes from a small house. 🏠 Part I: Inexact questions, kids being lawyers, an avalanche of artwork, and a forlorn-looking dog who can’t make up his mind. 🐩

https://t.co/QUzuQIjc5u

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@ashleigh_young Haven't you heard? You can get life in 4K now.

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Podcast episode 7 is out, titled “Wait, what did you say?” (part I). On language and working out what things mean – generally by saying the wrong things first, and then looking back on them to either laugh or cringe. 😐

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Twitter is kind of okay, but how about I just send you the good stuff directly each week? It’s email – that you’ll actually like! 📬

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👆 Just sign up with your email address. I will treat your inbox with care and fill it with LOLs. 💝

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@ashleigh_young 🙀

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Bears, hares and wondering where – notes on the hilarious linguistic laziness of Kiwi English. ☎️

https://t.co/oMD358J5uj

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Podcast episode #6 is about hitchhiking, and that choice you have to make when someone pulls over to give you a ride: Should I trust this person? Listen to four tales where this was a difficult question to answer.
https://t.co/KLOdMXMdWF

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Latest list: Things kids announce just as you’re rushing out the door for school at 8:59am. 🏃🧳🌂

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