I don’t know when the transition happened. Email used to be fun and exciting, like you’d actually look forward to seeing that you got a new email, rather than annoyed by whatever marketing email you accidentally signed up for five years ago. These days, most of the emails I get are shipping notifications (alright, those are okay…), emails from my child’s school, a couple of substack articles, and promotions for a new sale happening. This is after I went through and did a mass unsubscribing - it was a lot worse before. When did email become something to loathe? I was skeptical of creating an email inbox for my bear blog, but WOW my mind has been changed. After a few posts, I started getting actual people sending me lovely emails and wanting to discuss what I wrote!! It was shocking. People don’t like emails, why am I getting emails from real people? Bear Blog actually made getting emails fun again. And now if I see an email attached to a blog post that I really enjoyed, I go out of my…
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