Agalia Tan

“My AI could be entertaining people around the world while I’m at home with my babies,”

As The 19th* recently reported, in the imagination of the manosphere, the so-called “pilates girl” prioritizes her physical appearance, choosing a workout routine that keeps her lean (not bulky) and surrounds herself with other women (which also means: not men). That makes her “wife material.”

What nobody is discussing is what this fantasy — the... See more

Eight in 10 women want to be promoted to the next level and young women at the entry level are more interested in being promoted than young men, according to McKinsey and Lean In’s latest Women in the Workplace report. And when women have children — one of their highest callings, according to the manosphere — they become even more ambitious:... See more

Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie will this year publish his own book, How to Save the Media . It will likely re-examine topics he has already covered on his newsletter Disjointed. It may well even include reworkings of that content. It will almost certainly be, according to my definition above, a Substack Book.

This is the ultimate trapdoor in the hall of fame; to become a prisoner of one’s own persona

The key part for me here is the characterisation “internet writing”. I would argue that the Substack Book is not always literally Substack posts sewn together (though that can be an element of it), but books written with the affect of Substacking: piecemeal, personal, presumptive of the audience’s pre-existing interest in the author.