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I said earlier that the biggest risk to Substack is archives, but that’s only true in the existential sense. With regards to future growth, the biggest risk is that the mainstream population continues to read mainstream journals, and Substack never crosses the chasm.

So what can we do about it? A concept called “flow” may be an antidote to languishing. Flow is that elusive state of absorption in a meaningful challenge or a momentary bond, where your sense of time, place and self melts away. During the early days of the pandemic, the best predictor of well-being wasn’t optimism or mindfulness — it was flow.... See more

100%, and I think the way to square this in your mind is to replace the word “friction” with the word challenge: tokengating is about adding challenge to certain products. This is demand 101: the default state of the world is not “everyone wants your product.” Creating demand is an art: you create a story, and a challenge, and you wrap the... See more

In this imagined future-Twitter, the interface would only surface content from areas of the platform of which users are a member or a follower. The owners of brands, topics, and genres could either get a percentage of ad revenue or charge subscriptions (with Twitter getting a fee, of course) for access to certain types and pieces of content.

All the benefits in life come from compound interest; whether in money, relationships, love, health, activities or habits

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