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Substack's primary growth loop is what we call a User Generated, User Distributed content loop within Advanced Growth Strategy program.

We listen to views that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard.

And if the only two fair measures are popularity and who can make the most money on things, it tends to over-emphasize things that are conventional, rather than radical, because conventional things sell better. And so we’re just rewarding ourselves for following formulas. And the whole point of cultural creation is supposed to be breaking those

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We may have come here to help keep our options open, but I leave believing that the most radical act we can take is to make a commitment to a particular thing… to a place, to a profession, to a cause, to a community, to a person. To show our love for something by working at it for a long time — to close doors and forgo options for its sake.

1. The count of players rapidly increase - thereby increasing the amount of SLP the guild itself can earn each day.

When Jobs arrived back at Apple, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope. It was divided into business units, each with its own P&L responsibilities. General managers ran the Macintosh products group, the information appliances division, and the server products division, among others. As is often the case with... See more

Many DAOs currently benefit from the flexibility they are able to offer their contributors. In contrast to traditional companies, individuals can move fluidly between DAOs, often contributing to multiple DAOs at the same time. While this flexibility is appealing to many contributors and is one of the factors that has enabled DAOs to attract top... See more

The more Springwater and Mackenzie thought about it, the more they thought they could build a better way. What they built became an app called Matter, a combination of a read-later app and a discovery engine for great content. Ultimately, Springwater said, it could be even more. "Reading right now is really simple," he said. "It's text on a page.... See more