capitalism

Stephen Jay Gould wrote in The Panda's Thumb: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops".

I think Substack changed the culture on readers paying for writing, which is generally a very good thing. But that also leads to this urge of trying to monetize everything, even very casual stuff. What it reminds me of is trying to establish my career by tweeting a lot circa 2013-2018, when it seemed to matter. Imagine if that structure pushed... See more

Social media is encroaching on what was a once a respectably literate walled garden — the machine is now in the garden