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Paul Theroux • Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
Most first drafts can be cut by 50 percent without losing any information or losing the author’s voice.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
New York Review Books
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So when we wonder where all the websites have gone, know it’s the curators we’re nostalgic for because the curators showed us the best the web had to offer once upon a time. And the curators— the tenders, aggregators, collectors, and connectors— can bring us back to something better. Because it’s still out there, we just have to find it.
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Steve Pratt • Earn It: Unconventional Strategies for Brave Marketers
The biggest risk to Substack isn’t that Gmail changes its algorithm or that readers set up automatic forwarding and share accounts. It’s that years from now, each author will have built up so much content that a reader can pay a 1 month subscription, download the archive, and be set on reading material.
Applied Divinity Studies • [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast
In the 1830s, “pamphlets” were popular and used to spread ideas and news and gossip, since they were more ephemeral than books, but they also became irrelevant much faster.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
The easier it is for the average person to publish, the more average what gets published becomes.