Engaged Reading Time: The Burning Platform Edition

Adam Tinworth

Dec 17, 2022 — 4 min read

Greetings from the end of the Revue world. This little newsletter that couldn’t is going away in its current form in less than a month, because the new Overlord of the Blue Bird, Elongated Mustalid, has decreed that it must be so. All the team behind Revue are already gone from the company in the big layoff from last month, but the founder is still at the company in a different role.

All of which means one simple thing: Revue will be shut down in January. And, unless I migrate it, this newsletter will end with it.

Not, of course, that most people would notice. It’s been months since I sent an issue, because life has been so busy I’ve been struggling to maintain One Man & His Blog let alone any side projects.

However, I’ve a backlog of saved links ready to share, so why not send them out in the dying days of this platform?

If you really don’t want them, an unsub is only a click away.

En avant, as a friend often says…

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