Iain Broome

Escaped busyness and a bout of serious internet-related funk to assemble a Clear Language Club newsletter.

I made it onto CLC! A genuinely proud moment.

Trying to set up a new Google Workspace account for my wife's new business and it is painful, I tell you. A dreadful, confusing experience.

Hard agree.

UK publishing generated £7.4 billion in revenue last year. Compare that to: Premier League football: £6.6 billion Home entertainment: £5.6 billion UK film industry: 2.8 billion Now tell me again why authors don't deserve fair contracts and better pay.

Renewed my Society of Authors subscription mostly to a) remind myself I once wrote a book, and b) maintain the notion that I might one day write another. 🙃

My pal Myke is an excellent podcaster and this will be an excellent podcast. 🍎

1000+ unique visitors for @clearlanguage.club over the last 30 days, which is a pretty decent beginning.

I find myself off work, feeling much better post-op, with some time on my hands, alone in the sunshine. Currently paralysed by an abundance of opportunity. So many things I could do. And yet, look at me, browsing barbecues on the B&Q website.

Reading The Wax Child for book club while off work recovering. I like the writing. All rather grim though for a sunny Tuesday morning.

Easy no-cook dinners for the heat this week: Monday: Cornetto Tuesday: Magnum Wednesday: Solero Thursday: Calippo Friday: Viennetta

Got a @clearlanguage.club newsletter out into the world. Lots of good stuff for content and designer types. 💌

Not sure if recovering from surgery in this weather is a) a good thing, nice to sit outside, or b) a massive missed opportunity to do nice things in the world. I suspect it's more c) feeling guilty I can't do fun things with the kids.

I have 1 million tabs open. 🎉

One for the spite village @lapope.bsky.social. 😢

You're probably wondering just how metric my socket set is

This is great. Go watch it. ❤️

Less than two weeks and I am taking part in The Tor Divide, which is a very long bike event that I consider myself entirely unprepared for. Seemed a good idea when I signed up. 😰

One my favourite things is when entire content teams sign up to Clear Language Club at the same time. 💌

Before AI, I'd start a creative project and slowly lose momentum until I abandoned it. With Claude Code, I can abandon projects at speeds I never dreamt possible.

Problem solved. Now using @echofeed.app from the ace @rknight.me and happily paying a small amount to do so.

Few content design roles on here.

Wrote an official launch post for the Clear Language Club blog. I'm quite excited about it. Looking forward to sending an email to 1000ish folk to tell them it's ready. 😬 💌 www.clearlanguage.club/say-hello-to...

Wrote an official launch post for the Clear Language Club blog. I'm quite excited about it. Looking forward to sending an email to 1000ish folk to tell them it's ready. 😬 💌 www.clearlanguage.club/say-hello-to...

There is no reason to be on Substack. There are plenty of free options. And if you need the membership stuff, consider paying for @ghost.org or @buttondown.com and keeping all your income.

I can’t recommend using a mitre saw and having a tiny piece of wood fly up and cause an abrasion on your cornea. Vision is fine. It will be fine. Right now it absolutely wails.

Started a new work project today and my brain is absolutely bursting with information. In a good way. 👍

This is a fantastic resource fyi. 👍

One of the fun things about AI is that someone has taken an existing image of our kitchen and asked a robot to make it the same but slightly different. Including all our art. Some of which was made by our kids. And then posted it everywhere. (My wife does interior design, hence initial image)

So, this is the Clear Language Club account on Bluesky. It's where new posts go and a way to follow what I publish to the site. I don't plan on using it for much else, but it's handy if you want to see links to content-related stuff in your feed. Like this post by @darekkay.com, which is ace.

I am very close to abandoning my attempts to autopost new posts on Clear Language Club to Bluesky. 🙃

The absolute softest of launches for the Clear Language Club blog. Just trying to make all the doodahs work, like the auto-post to Bluesky, which currently does not. Feel free to click about. www.clearlanguage.club/coming-soon/