I'm Starting the New Year by Asking Your Advice
It's Open Mic Day and I want your suggestions for The Honest Broker
Just like everybody else, I need New Year’s Resolutions. So I’m asking your advice for 2023—feel free to respond in the comments.
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Here are the topics for Open Mic #3:
What would you like me to write about at The Honest Broker? I even want to hear unusual suggestions—some of the most popular articles here have been quite different from your usual media fare. Substack allows us to take risks, and we should make the most of it.
What questions do you have for me? Some of you are already sending me questions via email, but I may turn this into a regular feature—”The Honest Broker Answers Reader Questions.” Here, too, even odd and quirky questions are welcome.
What topics should we address in open threads? We have already done two previous Open Mic Days here: the first asked you to recommend music, books, and movies, and the second let you promote your own projects. Both were very successful, but what other topics should we do?
What other advice do you have for The Honest Broker?
Thanks in advance for your input.
To be honest, Ted, there are some good ideas in the thread (I've looked through the 56 comments), but I bet that many of us would be happiest if you kept on writing about and posting whatever comes to your own mind. I find your expressed creativity when combined with your breadth and depth of knowledge to be stunning ... in a very good way.
I’d like some deep dives into music from far away, and foreign cultures. I was watch a film from Iran last night and there was incidental village music, not as part of the storyline, just in the background. I knew so little about it, and I’ve collected world music a fair amount. You seem to be well informed about so much. What do you find intriguing along those lines?