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In 2015, the F.D.A. found that many CBD-labeled products actually contained very little CBD. It sent out a flurry of letters warning companies not to make medical claims. Two years later, a study published in JAMA documented that, in 84 products sold online, 26 percent had less CBD than advertised and 43 percent had more. And the cannabis plant can... See more
Moises Velasquez-Manoff • Can CBD Really Do All That? (Published 2019)
But on Substack, you’re paid monthly, creating pressure to churn out regular updates. Since it’s impossible to have interesting novel thoughts twice a week every week, this also means writers skew heavily towards summarizing the news, pumping out quick takes, or riffing on whatever they read on Twitter.
Applied Divinity Studies • [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast
A personal email newsletter ought to be divided into seasons, just like a TV show.
Robin Sloan • Advice for newsletter-ers
Did you know that Coca-Cola makes the majority of its profit from selling its secret-formula of flavoring?
Business Breakdown [THREAD] https://t.co/paPLCzHhpw
Future of CPG and
One of the philosophical things that I hope to achieve is to decouple the concept that public goods have to come from one central organization.
Vitalik Buterin • #188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0
Looking back at all the tools and techniques that I've developed over the years as a writer, it occurs to me that most of them are, in one way or another, grappling with two critical mental forces: the power (and weakness) of human memory, and the sometimes overwhelming drive to procrastinate.
Steven Johnson • The Spark File
File over app
File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.
File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is... See more
food for thought. i largely agree with this and think link rot is a big problem on the Internet. we will need to solve for this on Sublime, by creating a permanent archives of saved pages, or integrating with Wayback Machine... but I also think the vast majority of people care about what you can do for them today, not about the ideology of the founders - which is why so many of the decentralized social networks or privacy focused whatever haven't taken off - the value of being file vs. app first is seen in the future, not today