Cassandre Bouchard

Seems to me, the obvious attraction of being able to monetize your taste—over putting out a probably-more-interesting letter about your actual life—is leading to a lot of very, very similar Substacks.

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

I think this this is an issue of content creation that we’re seeing on all these platforms — people see others making so much money off of their “unedited” selves and everyone is like “omg this is me too which means that I can do this too and I can show my ‘real, authentic life’ too” leaving the audiences inundated with unoriginal and unnecessary... See more

There are many types of feet in poetry, including trochee, iamb, spondee, dactyl, and anapest, all of which have a different combination of stressed and unstressed syllables.

In a 2019 interview with Stella Bugbee for New York Magazine , Kevin Systrom (co-founder of Instagram) said “At the beginning, when we were small, there were no influencers. I think once we crossed say, I don’t know, 100 million people, it became clear that you could maybe start to have an interesting business if you were just on Instagram.

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".