sari

Can the consequences of my use of this technology be undone? Can I live with those consequences?

So I think Facebook runs into the challenge of, "Okay, we're trying to shift people into stories, we're trying to shift people into the marketplace, we're trying to get people to use messenger and build this WeChat-like ecosystem within our messaging product. But our Feed makes so much money, it's on autopilot right now, so how do we make that... See more

there is also a ceiling of finances and attention. Who has time or money to consume 100 substacks a month? The redundancy question, and lack of coordination between different creators to divide up responsibilities and admin, I think also eventually exhausts the medium and ultimately the audience.

you can have a huge fire going but you won't be able to light up a cigarette (not a thread)

If you assume that the pace of change in consumer-facing Internet stays high, and that it gets more compelling over time, then in the long run the only options are a) be careful what you use, or b) accept that you're outsourcing a growing share of your decisions to product managers and growth hackers who do not necessarily have your interests at... See more

A few years ago, I saw a pattern across a team of writers I worked with: they were spending a lot of time and energy on really good first drafts of their work. In my mind, a v1 is a rough mockup to play with possible directions and prompt debate — the linguistic equivalent of popsicle sticks, cardboard, and duct tape. But I could sense them

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