Substack is a Dangerous Game for Writers

One of the book’s central innovations is Nguyen’s notion of value capture , whereby we are offered a simple metric designed to answer a complex evaluative question, and end up outsourcing our own values to that metric. How important and influential is my scholarship? Enter the h -index. How good and considerate am I as a passenger? Enter my uber ra... See more

And I have to wonder: what are these incentive structures doing to my writing?