Something I've struggled with as a polymathic content creator, is this dichotomy of whether to consolidate or not.

I started blogging on wordpress, but I tried out Paragraph, Beehiiv, Vocal, Substack, and more. Eventually settling down on Ghost CMS, where you are reading this now.

The reason that I bring this up is that I brought over the newsletters from those platforms to this one site. Bringing it all into the same fold, membership, and if you like the content then you can pay for the the premium posts with PolyPRO. The 🔧 The PolyTools Digest started out on Beehiiv and its own Ghost site. The 🎮 PolyInnovator Gaming started out on Paragraph. Finally, the 🏊 Mr. Dustin's Swim Academy AND ✒️ Fireside Codex both originated from Substack. Currently I'm testing out a new sub-brand even on Substack out of curiosity.

Why not build it here? Why not bring it too under the fold? Great questions, and the simple answer is that Ghost PRO (the hosting service) is limiting. They only let me have 3 newsletters at a time, whereas other hosting providers don't limit you. I need to move to one of them.

How you display it all.

I chose this particular theme because of how it showcases each tag, and organizes the information architecture visually. Other themes limit how you can present yourself and your content. Another reason why Beehiiv (especially), and Substack, both are pretty poor choices. As they limit the overall design completely, and Paragraph USED to be good about that. Letting you have some semblance of control of how your site looked, but then they got rid of that.

If you have a complex array of content, then you need to make the overall site design simple/minimalist.

When you sign up you have the choice of which newsletters you want to subscribe to. While some folks might say that by having choices, then some people won't choose any at all. Then those aren't the people for me.

My brand itself has been multi-faceted since the beginning, and has been made for those who are self-learners of all kinds. Whether that is for the Modular Degree, Swimming, or even Content Creation itself.

I encourage you to check out one or all of the newsletters!

I strive for a weekly cadence, although as of late I've struggled with content creation. Thus I'm going to get working on consistency.

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There are very few tools...

Buttondown is the only other one I can think of that can handle multiple arms. Technically wordpress has different post types, but your site can break so easily its not worth it. I've seen some people make multiple publications of Substack, but those are isolated siloes.

Meaning Ghost is the ONLY tool for Polymathic content creators.