Thought provoking
People will, if given the opportunity, read a 5,000-word essay on their phone. And they’ll do it right there, with their head still on the pillow. In those cases, it’s not terrible; it’s wonderful. And if you can capture that, if you can direct that attention to things worth attending to, it’s incredibly powerful. So if you’re a writer, why not go... See more
How Erik Hoel Went From Professor to Newsletter Creator with 40,000 Subscribers - Growth in Reverse
Can you be scientific and spiritual?
bigthink.com
Are Curators the new Critics?
I often think of the Noah Smith quote: “Fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.”
Clicks & Clout: How We Seek Status In the Digital Age
This quote from Tony Hsieh contains so much truth: “Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself).”
Talking heads come&go but if you write book you are AUTHORity.
Julian May • Intervention: A Novel
“A society made up of human beings who have turned themselves into small businesses is basically the logical endpoint of free market capitalism, anyway. To achieve the current iteration of the American dream, you’ve got to shout into the digital void and tell everyone how great you are. All that matters is how many people believe you.” – Kai
279 / The self-promotion treadmill of the ‘personal brand’
rev model is paid subs on substack + patreon - there’ds plenty of opportunity in the written word
“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”