@ayjay That's a thoughtful and thought-provoking post. I have been ruminating for the past few weeks about my own newsletter, which you can find here. Not too long ago, after I joined Micro.blog, I deleted my Facebook account, along with all my other social media accounts (except Twitter), and I have been sitting quietly, and patiently, with the question not just of what I want my online presence to be, but how I want both to connect with people through that presence, as well as to connect people to it (so that they can, for example, learn more about my work as a writer). These seem to me related but different kinds of connections. Or maybe I am just making something that is relatively simple more complicated than it needs to be--a bad habit of mine. I too am more interested in what you call "stock replenishment," but what I am hung up on right now is thinking about process. I feel like I am too scattered. I have my own website, Micro.blog, my newsletter, and I am a moderator/contributor on a blog called Alas. I want to find a way to bring those different things into some sort of coherent relationship with one another. Not being able to think my way through that is making it hard to put out the next issue of my newsletter. Or maybe I've just found what it should be about.