Chad Aaron Hall
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Chad Aaron Hall
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
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1. Do the work required to have an opinion
Resist the temptation to have an opinion on matters that exceed your understanding.
Resist the temptation to have an opinion on matters that exceed your understanding.
sari azout • Principles for sharing on the Internet
Instead of asking "How can I get people to pay?" start asking "How can I become indispensable to my readers?"
Wes Pearce • I Talked to 21 Substack Bestsellers. Here's the 7 Things They Do Differently.
The blogroll isn’t dead yet – some people still use it. So how about adding a little section or page to your site that does exactly the same? Link to the personal websites of people you respect and appreciate, maybe with a little description?
Matthias Ott • Into the Personal-Website-Verse
I think Substack has been enacting this strategy beautifully and to much success. Between the blogroll like side bar you can add to your front page, to the recommendations feature, and even the charts, its easy to live on Substack jumping from person to person. Substack not only brought back the newsletter but the personal website and RSS with it.
The Third Planet from Altair by Edward Packard
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Acker’s approach to writing was just as radical as her approach to paying the rent. Inspired by a poetry class taught by David Antin in which he instructed students to make poems out of snippets of text they copied from library books, Acker started making longer prose works with this same method. She would lift passages from existing books, make
... See moreMason Currey • Kathy Acker Was Against Creativity
“In this changing environment, we know more about what’s going on across the world than sometimes on our own streets,” he says. “We are looking for ways to reconnect that, [and] I just love connecting people. I love it when they mutually discover why they are so passionate about where they live.”
One man's mission to revitalize small-town America
Book people, relax. I’m not looking to replace reading-for-pleasure with cheap AI-generated summaries. They’re hollow and void of joy. I don’t want the Spark Notes. I want the obscure excerpts hidden in Chapter 13, written in elegant prose, and eerily related to my exact stream of thought. They’re just impossible to find at the right moment. Can... See more