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Introducing the List of Lists
A new publication in honour of the dearly departed List App
In October 2015, something happened that more or less changed my life: BJ Novak launched an App called The List App. It was a kind of like Twitter for longer form posts. Almost instantly, a real community formed around it.
Originally, people wrote traditional lists, like “15 things to do in NYC” or “best books I’ve read this year”. But eventually, it became so much more than that — a way to creatively tell stories in list form. “10 terrible boyfriends I’ve had” became a form of short memoir. “Reasons he isn’t calling me back” became a way to process a broken heart. We still shared “best books I’ve read this year” and “photos I took at the protest”, though.
Anyway, I’d like to create something of that here on Medium. It’s a publication called The List of Lists.
The ideas is this: write a post, and use the subtitle font for each “list” bullet point. Below are some of my own lists, so you can see the kind of thing I mean. (These all have numbers in the title, but that’s definitely not a requirement!)
