I have a theory, which has not let me down so far, that there is an inverse relationship between imagination and money. Because the more money and technology that is available to [create] a work, the less imagination there will be in it.
By using crypto rails, you can issue tokens to your community to align incentives and supercharge growth. I think the coolest thing you could do with a newsletter token is give token holders a percentage of future earnings in the form of on-chain dividends. As revenue accrues to an on-chain treasury for the newsletter, token holders can periodicall... See more
The most important question any business leader could ever ask themselves – “What business are we in?”
If you ask yourself this question ~5 times (without repeating answers, of course) it’s like an archaeological dig to figure out the true essence of your company
If you ask any responsible parent... 'Would you like your kid to have the same job you do, or would you like them to have a better job?' ... Ask a parent who works in a blue collar profession. Ask a parent who works on an assembly line or works in the frontline of manual labor, the harder work. 'Do you want your kid to be doing that, or would you r... See more
The resulting translations were far from great. It wasn’t because our translators weren’t skilled or trying hard enough: They had no context on the bits of text they were translating. They also had no idea how the text would appear in the final product, where it was used, or how it connected to our software’s user interface. Because spreadsheets we... See more
With that in mind, we commit to keeping Substack wide open as a platform, accepting of views from across the political spectrum. We will resist public pressure to suppress voices that loud objectors deem unacceptable. If you look at Substack’s leaderboards today, you’ll see writers from the left and the right, the populist and the elite, the low-br... See more
The internet turned everything into a commodity—now built on what economist Jeremy Rifkin calls “access relationships,” where “virtually all of our time is commodified” and “communications, communion, and commerce [are] indistinguishable.” Think of it like an open subscription loop, or peer-to-peer lifestyle funding. The next frontier is a world wh... See more