reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
averageness is a feature of modern life. scaling means figuring out what works on average.
lovely, from my fave restaurant in London
When I started writing a newsletter in 2019, I remember thinking there were too many newsletters. That was before Substack had made a meaningful dent on the Internet and only a handful of writers were seriously using it. The coolest things do not yet exist. You are not late.
Smaller, slower distribution could mean better content, better relationships, and better businesses — doubtless at smaller scales than what was hoped from BuzzFeed, Vice, etc., but then those didn’t work out. The benefits of cultivating and controlling your own distribution are mutual comprehension between a publication and its consumers; feelings of loyalty and trust; and perhaps an ability to survive in the long term, building a more durable institution.