But as you peruse the lists, something becomes clear: the most successful people on Substack are those who have already been well-served by existing media power structures.
Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and ideas to be 'natural': they are often the products of the ideas of audacious thinkers who came before us.
Ultimately, networks of people are held together with heart. Not only by mathematical, transactional, left-brain incentive structures. Right brain human psychology prevails in the long term — belief in a mission, or commitment to a set of human relationships.
There’s a case to make here, which I see being spitballed around on the Internet a lot, that the old way of doing things is over. Our year of remote-only will dispel the familiar rituals and expose our expensive addictions to these things. And after this is over, we’ll have a harder time with casually approving $4000 of flights, hotels, and lost ti... See more
Mark Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp with a dual-share ownership structure that ensures Mark Zuckerberg the 14th will still control those entities, “like literally“ We won’t have that at Twitter” - Elon Musk