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🗓️Joined Substack in 2019 — 7 years ago.
📤Posts about 0.6× per week.
💬0.1% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 10K Subscribers for passing 10K subscribers.

👥 Audience demographics

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Modeled from this creator's niche, platform & region — a niche benchmark, not this creator's real audience data.

Gender split
Male 48% Female 52%
Age · peak 18-24
13-1711%
18-2433%
25-3432%
35-4416%
45+8%
Top geographies
  • United States34%
  • India11%
  • United Kingdom8%
  • Brazil6%
  • Indonesia5%
Audience language
  • English88%
  • Other12%
Likely interests
EntertainmentLifestyleTrending

💬 Newsletter engagement

Measured

Real reader activity from the last 12 posts — reactions, comments and restacks are public on every Substack post.

63
❤ avg reactions / post
3
💬 avg comments / post
8
🔁 avg restacks / post
0.1%
Solidreaction rate
Free issues (reach the whole list) vs paywalled
83% free

Almost every issue is free — a sponsor reaches the entire subscriber base.

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The history of technology and the philosophy of progress, plus announcements from the Roots of Progress Institute

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