Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
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Chad Aaron Hall
readordieaslave.substack.com
Almost half of all adult Americans under 30 still live with their parents.
The Puzzle of Generational Politics
Extremists are often following one another.
Cass R. Sunstein • Conformity
It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the... See more
Dennis Jamison • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
The problem is not merely homogeneity of topic, but homogeneity of substance. If you have to publish a newsletter every week, you don’t have the room or incentive to take risks.
Applied Divinity Studies • [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast
For the most part, novelists are trying to convert something present in their consciousness into a story. Yet there is an inevitable gap between the preexisting original and the new shape it is spawning. That creates a dynamic the novelist can use as a kind of lever in the fashioning of his narrative. This is quite a roundabout way to do things,
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How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
app.thestorygraph.com
One of Adam’s points was that it’s much harder to judge whether a newsletter has actually found content-market fit if they pay for growth out of the gate, especially with recommendation platforms where some portion of readers aren’t even aware they’re signing up for your list.
Slow to Build, Slow to Kill – The Write to Roam
To recap, they used a model that made them much better at their core work and made them more productive, especially for the top researchers, but they dislike it because the “fun” part of the job, coming up with ideas, fell to a third of what it was before!
We found something that made us much much more productive but turns out it makes us feel worse
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