Today, I can barely tell anyone apart. Many of the Substacks I follow use these big, figurative words that don’t really make sense in an attempt to go viral, which on this platform means getting subscribers and notes and comments. It’s like there’s this internet language that “works” for engagement (literal language, but also sense of style, and a... See more

Are you reading the words of your favorite writer, their intern, or their intern’s ghostwriter?

At scale, I suppose performative thought isn’t a bug—it’s a feature.

As Emily Sundberg deftly noted: “Substack is making everyone into writers the way Instagram made everyone into photographers, but there’s one big difference ... the point of Substack is... See more

Hot Take: Substack is just as susceptible and welcoming to the mindless tendencies of other social media platforms.

This is why short “notes” about random things will get infinitely more attention than a poem or essay or story containing the poured-out heart of a writer.

We are addicted to easy things.

Substack is not the golden redemption from... See more