MG, can we still call it new, spyglass is new, right?

I mean, when did you start?

So I started...

Yeah, go ahead.

Well, I just want to say, thank you. Thank you for returning to blogging. You're welcome. Thank you for

continuing blogging and holding down the floor at all these years. Yeah I started it in January, sort of ramping since then.

Obviously I did this, as you all know, for a living many, many years ago.

I've been blogging 20 some years, but but was doing it professionally for a long time.

Tech Crunch and other places and then I've always been doing it on the side, but medium I was running the 500 dish publication there while I've been doing sort of my day-to-day job

as an investor for the past 12 or so years but yeah I decided sort of coming into the new year

that I was going to take it going back to taking it more seriously again.

So I decided that needed a new publication and new URL. And so everything else historically is still there of course, but I wanted to start fresh with something and yeah

it's been it's been fun ramping back up and getting back into it sort of on a daily basis obviously

taking inspiration from yourself and a friend Ben Thompson and many others who are now doing this for a living.

I still have sort of my day-to-day job on the investing side, but I've been able to free up some time to be able to do

this again more.

Spyglass.org but of course anybody could just Google spyglass and at this point it's going

to be your site but Dave Weiner has always said I mean I think

he's been saying it since before I even started writing during Fireball I mean that's how long Dave has been saying it, that there

are natural born bloggers. And the reason I think I'm almost certain that he said it before I started is I remember thinking

before I started writing during Fireball I really think I could do this I like I

think this is my format I think it's turned out pretty true for me but I would

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