Hello Again

Reviving my Medium to get the writer juices flowing again

Matt Savener
5 min readNov 23, 2022
Photo by Yann Allegre on Unsplash

Hi, everyone. This is my first post here in a while. I’m hoping to revive this as a space to, well, to write again. At all. Please forgive me if the muscles are a bit atrophied.

I’m not sure exactly what form this will take yet. In all likelihood there will be some politics and tech musings, and my favorite hobbies of beer and backpacking are likely to continue making appearances (backpacking is still many months off, but the planning is the best part, right?). Maybe even some personal stuff.

If you’re wondering who the hell I am and why you’re following me, I used to run the Curation team here at Medium. That ended in August. So I’m no longer writing as a Medium employee and won’t be discussing Medium matters here at all. Feel free to unfollow if you followed for that.

One big thing I plan to do here is to highlight great writing that resonates with me, agnostic of platform. So let’s start that today.

Yesterday, Substack announced “Letters” in an email to users. The concept is something that we’re sorely missing these days: nuanced discussion with the possibility of changed minds and further enlightenment.

I missed it at the time, but in September my former colleague Parker Molloy was one of the…

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