Mathias Black

@mpblack
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Hey, I'm Mathias - a strategic communications and content marketing consultant based in Copenhagen, DK. I love all things storytelling (and have written and published 14 novels in my "spare" time). Let's connect!
Websitehttps://www.mathiasblack.com

Painting of the day. Which makes me smile. And makes me want to ride a train and read a book with a loved one. 💜

Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust

Enjoyed this reminder that all those brilliant or not-so-brilliant ideas will never be appreciated by others if you don't hit that publish button

https://www.jeetmehta.com/posts/thrive-in-obscurity

#writing #blogging #newsletters #creativity

Thrive in obscurity

The path to creative mastery begins with years of silence. Publish anyway.

It may not change the outcome, but signing this petition still sends a clear message to Google that its plan to reduce freedom on Android is not OK: https://c.org/tGZn78jZzk #BigTech #Android #Freedom
I've been harping on about the qualitative vs. quantitative divide in #contentmarketing so when I saw this article by Mark Ritson in Think with #Google, I had that lovely, tingly feeling of another human validating my own point of view. Maybe you'll like it too.😄
https://business.google.com/en-all/think/search-and-video/mark-ritson-bothism/
Before you continue

What is powering AI?

YouTube

Could you produce the energy needed to make a piece of toast? This is such a helpful way to make the cost of energy tangible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4O5voOCqAQ& #energy #climate

Olympic Cyclist Vs. Toaster: Can He Power It?

YouTube
Is #Pixelfed on #iOS not working? Or even defunct? I've tried the app, but it keeps giving me an error and then crashing. I can see the last update was 6 months ago...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@protonblog/116224894486530783

I wonder if eventually we'll see #Meta also remove E2E encryption from Messenger and #whatsapp

When I first left the ex-Twitter platform, I expected to use #Bluesky a lot. But I keep gravitating more toward Mastodon. It might be because #Mastodon feels genuinely different, whereas Bluesky keeps reminding me of what #Twitter used to be.
The way I read this: countries have the ability to turn wealth into trust, but the richest nation in the world fails to do so.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/12/01/where-most-people-trust-others-and-where-they-dont-around-the-world/
Where most people trust others and where they don’t around the world

Trust tends to be higher in the high-income countries surveyed than in the middle-income ones.

Pew Research Center