Rank #113↓ 4
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Nicholas Thompson
CEO @ The Atlantic | Co-Founder, Keynote Speaker | Author of the national best-seller, “The Running Ground.”
Audacity index™
29/ 100
Tracked
Post velocity7.0
Carriage return artistry2.0
Hook conformity3.0
Humble-brag density3.0
Framework rate1.0
Story-to-lesson velocity2.0
Emoji bullet usage1.0
Selfie-with rate2.0
Repost-of-self rate2.0
Main character energy3.0
Season summary
Thompson posted 34 times across roughly three weeks, with the recurring header 'The Most Interesting Thing in Tech' appearing in at least 13 of those posts — a newsletter-to-feed pipeline that doubles as a branded cadence. Several posts amplified others' takes on AI and journalism, including tagged commentary on Erik Brynjolfsson, Scott Pelley, Jim Lehrer, Sasha Stiles, a first Emmys appearance slipped in between two tech dispatches. A curator who occasionally steps in front of the camera.
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