Heather Cox Richardson

So I started answering questions and one thing led to another. And I think I had a million followers on Facebook within a matter of weeks. And then it turned over into the newsletter as well. So I didn't really come out of nowhere. I just came from a different silo to a more popular audience.

So I started answering questions and one thing led to another. And I think I had a million followers on Facebook within a matter of weeks. And then it turned over into the newsletter as well. So I didn't really come out of nowhere. I just came from a different silo to a more popular audience.

So I started answering questions and one thing led to another. And I think I had a million followers on Facebook within a matter of weeks. And then it turned over into the newsletter as well. So I didn't really come out of nowhere. I just came from a different silo to a more popular audience.

Well, yeah, and I would say something that I've really learned, and that's that the other part of my story that I think is perhaps one of the things that people find interesting is I really am from a very small town in Maine, and I still live here, and I'm married to a lobsterman.

Well, yeah, and I would say something that I've really learned, and that's that the other part of my story that I think is perhaps one of the things that people find interesting is I really am from a very small town in Maine, and I still live here, and I'm married to a lobsterman.

Well, yeah, and I would say something that I've really learned, and that's that the other part of my story that I think is perhaps one of the things that people find interesting is I really am from a very small town in Maine, and I still live here, and I'm married to a lobsterman.

And there is a sense sometimes that people who don't have college degrees, as my husband does not, or that people who work in manual labor, as so many of my friends do, are stupid. And I know that's not the case because this is my world.

And there is a sense sometimes that people who don't have college degrees, as my husband does not, or that people who work in manual labor, as so many of my friends do, are stupid. And I know that's not the case because this is my world.

And there is a sense sometimes that people who don't have college degrees, as my husband does not, or that people who work in manual labor, as so many of my friends do, are stupid. And I know that's not the case because this is my world.

And so there has never been a sense for me of talking down to people or trying to explain things to people who, you know, maybe don't have the intellectual power to do it because these are the people I've grown up with. I know they're incredibly smart. They just took a different path than some of the rest of us do.

And so there has never been a sense for me of talking down to people or trying to explain things to people who, you know, maybe don't have the intellectual power to do it because these are the people I've grown up with. I know they're incredibly smart. They just took a different path than some of the rest of us do.

And so there has never been a sense for me of talking down to people or trying to explain things to people who, you know, maybe don't have the intellectual power to do it because these are the people I've grown up with. I know they're incredibly smart. They just took a different path than some of the rest of us do.

One of the things that I have discovered is not only that writing for a popular audience does not mean dumbing anything down. To the contrary, it usually means smartening it up because there are no shortcuts. But also that if you do something even so simple as putting a click through, so an organization that offers its clients,

One of the things that I have discovered is not only that writing for a popular audience does not mean dumbing anything down. To the contrary, it usually means smartening it up because there are no shortcuts. But also that if you do something even so simple as putting a click through, so an organization that offers its clients,

One of the things that I have discovered is not only that writing for a popular audience does not mean dumbing anything down. To the contrary, it usually means smartening it up because there are no shortcuts. But also that if you do something even so simple as putting a click through, so an organization that offers its clients,

information for free but you have to click onto that website it cuts the audience by huge magnitudes so going to facebook directly to facebook means that that i can reach you know tens of thousands of people instantly or on instagram or whatever but if i do it behind a wall that you have to click through even if it's free the numbers drop down into the low hundreds

information for free but you have to click onto that website it cuts the audience by huge magnitudes so going to facebook directly to facebook means that that i can reach you know tens of thousands of people instantly or on instagram or whatever but if i do it behind a wall that you have to click through even if it's free the numbers drop down into the low hundreds

information for free but you have to click onto that website it cuts the audience by huge magnitudes so going to facebook directly to facebook means that that i can reach you know tens of thousands of people instantly or on instagram or whatever but if i do it behind a wall that you have to click through even if it's free the numbers drop down into the low hundreds

I was going to say, I'm trying to figure that one out over here right now.

I was going to say, I'm trying to figure that one out over here right now.