Many of you will already know that The Intelligent Miner turned five years old this year. Someone asked me recently why I hadn’t made a bigger deal about this milestone. If I’m honest, at the time, I felt too shy. But the truth is, The Intelligent Miner has become a success. And not just for me, but for the other people who’ve helped to shape it too.
While it provides me with a source of income and markets my skills as a writer to a broad audience, The Intelligent Miner has never felt like a ‘job’. The editorial freedom this platform has given me and, I hope, the experts who I collaborate with, feels like a breath of fresh air. I still sit down at my desk every day excited to share thoughts and explore new topics with you.
From the start, The Intelligent Miner has been a community-led publication with readers telling me what they’d like to read (or listen to – hello, podcast!), trusting me to help share their opinions on important, sometimes sensitive, subjects, and authoring their own articles with my encouragement.
I’m proud to have created a space where contributors can show up as their whole selves, and that a handful of you have chosen to work with me as regular contributors going into 2025. The Intelligent Miner is now read by around 30,000 people each year in over 100 countries (only a small portion of you are in the UK). More than 2,000 people receive this newsletter every month. From CEOs to government officials, marketeers to consultants, I see and appreciate you all.
The point of this is that I want to say thank you. Whether you’ve been with me since day one, or for only one day, this space is as much yours as it is mine and I’m grateful for your continued support and feedback. It’s not just my success, it’s our success. So happy birthday to us. I’m excited to see where we will go together over the next five years.
Have a great Christmas break! And, if you’d like to see what’s coming up next year, check out our 2025 editorial calendar.
Carly