High-performing creators may churn from Substack to build their own cheaper backend

I stopped using Instagram professionally one year ago, and it's the best decision I've made for my business.

For years I was chasing growth on a platform that never felt right. The algorithm rewarded content I didn't want to make, and I was constantly performing for people who weren't actually buying anything.

I kept telling myself I just needed to... See more

Times are changing for writers. There’s been a recent wave who’ve stopped contributing to outlets and moved to newsletters like this, such as myself. To give some insight into what’s happening, the following is a postmortem of my decade-long career writing nonfiction for well-known media outlets like The Atlantic or The Daily Beast.