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Digitally Decoupled · Dec 23, 2025

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Vince Mao · Digitally Decoupled

Note: Starting in 2026, I’ll be cross-posting my Beehiiv work to here and Medium as an experiment. As a general rule, that’s where my work has always shown up first, sometimes weeks beforehand.

The following is my weekly one I do there which I won’t push here in the future (lightly edited for relevance with some affiliate links).

First day of Winter Break for my family, and it’s already exhausting on several levels.

But then again, what’s new? Hopefully I’ll dodge the usual bugs that get in the last shots for the school system this year. It seems like every extended break, the parents are the ones who take it in the teeth because all the kids seem to have this unspoken pact that they’ll spread the love as quickly as possible. Must be the “Secret Santa” stuff that always happens.

Here’s what I’ve come across this week:

BlueSky Bit - Sunday bunday!

Medium Moment - Some good points if you generate writing

Substack Sampling - The truth about systems and the human condition

So about that experiment that I started on my birthday…

  • Post a Note

  • Capture one topic idea

  • Write at least 250 words anywhere

  • Take one action towards building my business

  • Engage with at least three comments on notes or articles

I haven’t missed a day so far.

Here’s what’s happened to my Substack:

My stats for the last 90 days...
You can see where I started this experiment (around Thanksgiving)…

Nothing to write home about (haha), but it is rather nice to see a solid grey bar to highlight the consistency. I know I can build this kind of habit, but the hardest thing by far has been to write a 250-word blurb and do something with the business end of this whole endeavor.

I just want to be more intentional about what I’m doing, and after three years of consistently writing, it’s more of moving stuff around and seeing what works for me.

I’ve been holding back from cross-posting all the work I’ve done, but I’m working on a distribution system that’s more effective. Between the crazy-hard writing course (highly recommended) and Skool group (affiliate link, also highly recommended) that I’ve been involved in for the past year, there’s no excuse for not gaining traction and visibility at this point.

I’ll be relatively quiet as Christmas ramps up, but I’ll be hard at work.

Writing metrics this year:

Vince Mao's 2025 writing metrics for word count.
Iimpressions are anemic, but I learned a lot from the experience this year.
Vince Mao's Beehiiv 2025 metrics for posts, avg open rate and CTR.
Not bad. I don’t usually include many links, but I will in 2026.

Here’s to writing a little bit more in the coming year!

P.S. Digital Distinction? Digitally Decoupled? Still toying with the new name for the new name…

Again, this is my weekly report on my progress in terms of wrestling with myself on writing as a business. If you’re interested in following this journey of mine, I invite you to subscribe there as well.

Read the original on projectpresence.substack.com

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