David believes that users follow the content and don’t have any loyalty to content delivery platforms. Thus, David and his team are focusing on getting creators on board and believe that they will be able to acquire end-users through their creators. This strategy has been working pretty well so far - for the Beta site, they have gotten over 1300... See more
So yeah, football sucked. Anyone who played college football will tell you that it sucked. And guess what else? I loved it. Most former players loved it. There was beauty in this struggle. A beauty in the "suck".
on the other hand, i don’t really believe in obligation to the past, especially because obligation is often used to guilt or pressure people into specific behaviors, especially because that guilt or pressure often results in needless anxiety.
What’s amazing is that the difficulty of creating this situation of “fully democratized information” is entirely economic rather than technological. What I describe with books is close to what Google Books and Amazon already have. But of course, universal free access to full content horrifies publishers, so we are prohibited from using these... See more
Our modest goal with Substack is to help accelerate and amplify the advent of the culture future through a better media system. Culture is not just about getting what you want; it is about learning what to want. It shapes our values, beliefs, identity, taste, and how we relate to other people. And in turn, we shape it, when we choose what to pay... See more