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The most difficult aspect of writing a PR/FAQ is emotional. If you find yourself attempting do a PR/FAQ, it’s likely that you’re writing to concretise some new idea you have in your head. The dominant feeling that you’ll experience when you attempt to write one is that you will discover just how shitty your new idea really is.
Commoncog • Putting Amazon’s PR/FAQ to Practice
Top substack writers all have a clear focus. The Dispatch writes about politics, Matt Stoller writes about monopolies, Bill Bishop covers China.
Applied Divinity Studies • [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast
Before COVID changed the way we all live and work in 2020, many of the world’s podcasts were recorded in real life. For shows with multiple hosts or guests, podcasts were often recorded in a studio or physical space, with creators huddled around a few microphones. Once COVID hit and we were all forced to social distance, people naturally started us... See more
Michael Mignano • All Podcast Roads Lead to Video
Digital Wellness and
FOMO is good. Being plugged in is good. There is valuable info at all levels from twitter gossip to philosophy books. You should stay plugged in. You can manage anxiety and beat the House without resorting to shaming social platforms into managing attention for you. That's a terrible yielding of agency.
Venkatesh Rao • Against Waldenponding
In my lifetime, the changes in the world have been incredible. When I was a kid, we had a rotary phone... and you had to dial it. And you actually would hate people with zeroes in their numbers ;)
Louis C.K. • Louis CK Everything is amazing & Nobody is happy
The book opens with a strong statement: our conventional origin story for money is totally wrong.
Alex Danco • Debt: the First 5000 Years
The question, “Why don’t you agree with me?” can have infinite answers.
But usually a better question is, “What have you experienced that I haven’t that makes you believe what you do? And would I think about the world like you do if I experienced what you have?”
Collab Fund • One Big Web: A Few Ways the World Works
No one, and I mean NO ONE, has ever grown a larger audience as a result of a crowdfunding campaign or presence on Patreon, it’s just a way to milk your already existing fans for more money. And it’s fine if you like the cash, but don’t delude yourself into thinking your impact is growing, in fact it’s declining.