Roundup
The results of the first 2026 All Your Days audience survey are in—here’s what readers had to say
Relations between the United States and China, the rise of artificial intelligence, and income inequality are among the issues on the minds of All Your Days readers.
AYD conducted its first audience survey of the year on February 28. 2026. Thank you to everyone who participated. The learnings will be leveraged, as the corporate jargonist imprisoned at the back of the All Your Days compound likes to scream (alone and in the dark, where he deserves to live).
Let’s dig in.
Half the AYD survey takers read this newsletter twice weekly.
One quarter read this little missive more than twice a week.
That’s humbling data. Deep thanks, readers.
And then, interestingly, some basic architecture challenges are evident. Here’s what’s up with that.
Email is the baseline experience: There are three ways AYD appears in the world. First, the emails. Subscribers get those every Tuesday and Thursday (and on the odd off-day, like today). Entirely sufficient. Works every time. Nobody’s got an issue here.
There is also a Substack app: A significant number of readers are using (and discovering) AYD via the Substack app. For those who’ve downloaded it to their phones or tablets, tap the “like” button in an email, for example, and the app should open on the mobile device. On the app’s version of AYD, readers can see the Notes that AYD publishes (short, social-media-like posts), and they can browse past AYD articles—the complete run is unlocked for paying subscribers ($5/month or $50/year); the past two weeks are always unlocked for free subscribers.
And then Substack has a website: Third, there’s an All Your Days “front page” on Substack’s website at allyourdays.substack.com. On the page, readers can see all the AYD articles, and, more importantly—or so your editorially obsessed author suggests—explore them by category.
The page is browsable by sections such as “Authoritarianism,” “Elections + Voting,” “Immigration,” and the like.
About one-third of the survey takers said they expected to use these sections to home in on their favorite topics. Love that.
Sixty-seven percent, however, said they didn’t know AYD had a website. Now, everyone who’s read this far knows it’s there.
As 2026 unfolds, All Your Days will always focus on the most useful ideas and information relevant to the week’s most urgent events. But readers have spoken, and your faithful editor knows what to do.
Based on a single write-in survey response, the newsletter offered its first look at income inequality over the past week. Ask, and the reader shall (almost always) receive.
U.S.-China relations were on the minds of 50 percent of AYD respondents. So, that needs to be on the calendar. On it.
Native American affairs and climate change accounted for 25 percent each, and there’s a write-in request for some coverage of A.I. On all counts, stay tuned. AYD is on the case.
One of the biggest discussions on the table in this second year of the newsletter is authorship. Three-quarters of AYD readers say they’d welcome additional writers appearing in the bylines.
One idea on this side of the glass would be a quarterly cryptocurrency beat that focuses on how crypto intersects with politics and corruption. Thoughts?
Another idea is a monthly or every-other-month discussion with an expert on a single AYD subject. This would likely be a video format. Thoughts?
There’s the roundup, readers. And the survey remains open. Influence the conversation; take it here: https://allyourdays.substack.com/survey/6315195
As always, thank you so very much for reading and supporting this publication. Stay strong out there.
