Sonal Chokshi ✓

@smc90 · sone.eth | 917-area/9-zip code · joined 17 Mar 2008

strong bias for makers. I heart art + tech. hayekian, capitalist. EIC a16zcrypto; Editor in Chief a16z + podcast showrunner 2014-2022; fmr WIRED, Xerox PARC

37 452Followers

13 625Following

37 211Posts total

27.1KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Sonal Chokshi ✓@smc9010 Sep

https://t.co/VKNBa3VCKg 1.2K views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Sonal Chokshi ✓@smc9022 May

The greatest invention in moving from typesetting to typewriting to word processing to personal computing era? CUT AND PASTE! made text far more malleable, and to me, the best editing is being able to see both *gestalt* (overall shape of a piece) AND moves at *atomic* level 1.7K views · 80 likes · 0 reposts · 43 replies Open on X →

Sonal Chokshi ✓@smc9022 May

Most people don't know what editors really do. It's not copyediting! (AI can easily do that, in various preferred styles too) - is not just emotional either. Yes editors are good at "kills" -- but the real value great editors bring is RESTRUCTURING. (I look for this in tests) 5.8K views · 72 likes · 3 reposts · 17 replies Open on X →

Sonal Chokshi ✓@smc9022 May

Our breathless obsession with curators and tastemakers could be turned a few degrees and pointed toward a romance with editors. "But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world," wrote the editor Betsy Lerner. An editor is a writer's first and most 8.9K views · 27 likes · 0 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Sonal Chokshi ✓@smc9020 May

This, so this 4.3K views · 45 likes · 4 reposts · 14 replies Open on X →

Sonal Chokshi ✓@smc9016 May

shoutout to all the Desis who will be triggered by this image of a foot on a book (beyond reacting to the substance of the book, threading some good ones in the replies) 5.1K views · 44 likes · 1 reposts · 26 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

1 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views1 182this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.16%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.93%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 182	924	1.28×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.16%	3.62%	0.87×
Engagement rate	0.93%	1.52%	0.61×

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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

5.1K16 May

4.3K20 May

8.9K22 May

5.8K

1.7K

1.2K10 Sep

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.39%16 May

1.45%20 May

0.38%22 May

1.58%

7.38%

0.93%10 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes66.0%278 in total

Reposts1.9%8 in total

Replies25.7%108 in total

Bookmarks6.4%27 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.

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