Luke Burgis ✓

@lukeburgis · ✍️ Newsletter: · joined 06 Mar 2012

Author of Wanting & The One & the Ninety-Nine Founder/Director @clunyinstitute DMs not monitored → Inquiries: 👉 https://t.co/ys2U4tIMcc

44 760Followers

3 539Following

43 387Posts total

156.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views9 271this account3 383median for 10K–100K

Reach, %20.71%this account10.96%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.16%this account1.40%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	9 271	3 383	2.74×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	20.71%	10.96%	1.89×
Engagement rate	1.16%	1.40%	0.83×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

74K16 Jun

47.6K2 Sep

9.3K

5.7K

2.4K3 Sep

13.1K

4.8K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.42%16 Jun

1.16%2 Sep

0.83%

1.19%

2.47%3 Sep

1.36%

1.09%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes71.5%1 087 in total

Reposts5.6%85 in total

Replies5.6%85 in total

Quotes2.9%44 in total

Bookmarks14.5%220 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Cluny rising 4.8K views · 47 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 the Subscription Economy was always unsustainable in its latest iteration, which is why substack is struggling (among other things). it's out of control. i woke up last week with anxiety about whether or not I cancelled my subscription to the 7-day free trial of ESPN+ streaming 13.1K views · 149 likes · 11 reposts · 10 replies 03 Sep 2026 I think I’ll rock these into class tomorrow morning, because I just—belatedly— learned that our household has no nail polish remover. Owning it! https://t.co/NswJp117mQ 2.4K views · 52 likes · 0 reposts · 8 replies 03 Sep 2026 One of my fundamental principles to live by is trying my best to embrace the real at every moment; I know I often fall short. It rests on the belief that there is such as thing as The Real. And that in this world, there are varying gradations of reality and unreality. We can live 5.7K views · 60 likes · 3 reposts · 4 replies 02 Sep 2026 Carmelite Sisters Building a Monastery to ‘Last a Thousand Years’ in Pennsylvania Bucking modern architecture and building conventions, the Fairfield Carmelites have opted to build their monastery using old-world methods including traditional stonemasonry and timber framing.⬇️ 9.3K views · 65 likes · 11 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Wendell Berry strongly resonated with sincerity culture millennials who hold a quasi-religious belief that there is a more “real” version of life which has been lost: slower, crunchier, “more human.” But the life you are living is every bit as real as the life of a 19th century 47.6K views · 480 likes · 26 reposts · 27 replies 02 Sep 2026 Friends, the book that I've poured myself into for the past three years—through the birth of two children!—is finally out. The One and the Ninety-Nine is about relationships, and more specifically the quest for real communion in a fractured age. Order a copy today: 74K views · 234 likes · 32 reposts · 33 replies 16 Jun 2026