A personal knowledge workspace
My Slack, Analysed
Workspace: Mike's Links
Window: 15 Jun 2026 – 13 Sep 2026 (90 days)
521 channels · 46,758 messages · 36,653 URLs since 1 Feb 2016 · Analysed September 2026
Generated: 13 September 2026, 16:23
Origin
How we got here
The accidental archive
2016
Feb -- The start
A personal Slack. No team. One channel per topic, for things worth remembering.
2026
Apr -- The analysis
A conversation with Rob Estreitinho (Salmon Labs) triggers the first full-decade analysis.
459
Channels -- The realisation
Every obsession, every pivot. Ten years of thinking, filed by topic.
Ten years of attention. One channel at a time.
Culture.
#cultural-interface is your #1 channel with 3,050 links, beating #ai-artificial-intelligence (2,898) -- despite opening in Jun 2023, four and a half years after the AI channel did in Nov 2018. You build AI products. The data says culture is your real operating system.
#cultural-interface: 3,050  ·  #ai-artificial-intelligence: 2,898  ·  #brands-nft: 1,878
36,676
Total links saved
Feb 2016 – Sep 2026
521
Channels created
127 still active
38%
From social
Twitter/X + LinkedIn
7,055
Peak year links
2026 – and still running
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Personal media diet system
Channels map to interest areas. You use Slack like a magazine rack and research database.
New
Slack Wrapped
8 key stats, one slide each. Made to share.
View Wrapped
All-time URL count · 2016–2026 · bar shows era trajectory
Top 25 Channels
All-time -- from 36,676 link timestamps
Hour of Day
Peaks: 11pm (2,847) · 10am (2,522) · 10pm (2,491) · 8am (2,354) · 9am (2,353)
All-time -- links by weekday
Day of Week
Wednesday is your most active day -- 6,136 links. Saturday is lowest at 4,390.
All-time stats
Total links36,676
Per year (avg)3,334
Active channels127 / 521
Peak year2026 (7,055)
Peak dayWednesday
Peak hour23:00
Dead channels394 / 521
Actions
🧹
Archive 394 dead channelsStart with the 30+ NFT channels -- all zero activity since 2022.
Wednesday = content daySchedule posts, reviews, and publishing for Wed -- your natural peak.
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Runs itself weeklypython3 ~/portfolio/scripts/slack-full-analysis.py
All-time · 36,676 URLs · mapped from 10 years of channel data
A Decade of Attention
5,39815%
Culture & Ideas
#cultural-interface · #culture-terminal · #design · #book · #food · #travel · #events · #slow-football · #ipad-art · #taste · #gaming · #podcast · #sports · #drink
5,26914%
Web3 & Crypto
#brands-nft · #nft-news · #nft-education · #nft-projects · #nft-artists · #nft-tokens · #bitcoin-crypto · #metaverse · #doodles · #nft-smartcontracts · #nft-music
4,57612%
AI & Intelligence
#ai-artificial-intelligence · #claude-code · #claudecode-agents · #ai-projects · #tools · #eleven-labs · #dev · #webdesign_inspo · #audio-voice
3,65410%
Career & Identity
#jobs · #ff · #linkedin · #founderstuff · #portfolio-page · #pitchdecks · #public-speaking · #productivity · #cv · #personal-growth
3,64210%
Industry & Media
#retail · #flex-thenew · #strat-weekly · #trends · #mediamonks · #advertising · #brands · #premium-luxury · #marketing · #subscriptions · #direct-to-consumer
1,5554%
Publishing & Work
#pattern-media · #newsletter-inbox · #blog-to-write · #ml-the-system · #substack · #litmanslens · #for-newsletter-substack · #podcasts
Key findings -- all-time data
What a decade reveals
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Web3 was 14% of a decade5,269 links across nft/crypto channels. The biggest single-era obsession in the archive -- and now almost entirely dead.
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Culture is the bigger category, AI is the older habit5,398 vs 4,576 links. But the AI channel opened in Nov 2018 and #cultural-interface not until Jun 2023. Culture is the newer obsession, not the constant.
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Twitter/X: 9,876 links across the decadeLinkedIn: 4,179. Social accounts for 38% of everything -- more than any single topic category.
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2026 is the biggest year yet: 7,055 linksIt passed 2021’s 6,559 with three and a half months still to run. The 2022 dip was never the habit dying, it was the nature of what I was reading changing.
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Wednesday beats Saturday by 40%6,136 vs 4,390 links all-time. Peak hour: 11pm (2,847 links). The thinking happens late and midweek.
All-time · 36,676 URLs across all channels · external sources only
Where You Actually Read

All-time domain data. Mike's own sites tracked separately. Duplicates merged.

Slack link format <URL|display text> causes some domain duplication in raw data -- merged and cleaned.
localhost / netlify internal / slack.com links excluded. Mike's own domains tracked separately.
Era breakdown · pre-2021 vs Web3 peak (2021-22) vs AI era (2023+)
Channel Trajectory
Pre-2021
2021–22
2023+
76% of the workspace -- 394 channels, no messages in the last 90 days
Dead Channels (by era)

An archaeological record. The NFT era alone: 30+ channels.

NFT / Web3 era (2021–22)
#nft-news#nft-artists#nft-drops#nft-tools#nft-projects#nft-gaming#nft-yuga#nft-minting#nft-wallets#meebits#allthings-dao#bitclout#solana#metaverse#discord
Old client work
#gillette#braun#soap-and-glory#pantene#p-and-g#mumm-champagne#hsbc-work#toblerone-work#car-mclaren-work#tv-sony-work#boots#amex
Housing & life admin
#newhouse-kitchen#newhouse-bedroom#newhouse-bathroom#newhouse-livingroom#mortgage#pension#freetrade#nutmeg
Dead platforms
#snapchat#twitter#twitter-spaces#clubhouse#instagram#tiktok#pinterest#facebook#byte
The bigger picture
What this workspace actually is
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A live map of your intellectual lifeFrom Web3 (2021–22) to AI-native products (2025–26). Not a tool -- an archive.
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You curate before you build#cultural-interface is #1 and it's culture -- not AI, not products. Signals come first, execution follows.
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Twitter/X is your primary research tool9,876 links from X across the decade -- one in four of everything saved. Twitter/X + LinkedIn = 38% of the entire archive.
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AI is a practice, not just a topic#ai-artificial-intelligence is #2, and the Claude Code channels have gone from nothing to hundreds of links this year -- you log your AI work in real time. That's a case study waiting to be written.
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The content is already here22,621 non-social links across 521 channels = a newsletter, a blog, a deck. You don't need to research -- just extract.
All-time · top 50 channels · 2016–2026 · run slack-full-analysis.py to refresh
Ten Years of Attention

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Read the full story at mikelitman.me/blog/459-slack-channels