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According to an advertising agency I consulted, for example, a weekly podcast that generates thirty thousand downloads per episode should be able to reach Kelly’s target of generating a hundred thousand dollars a year in income. Earning a middle-class salary by talking through a digital microphone to a fiercely loyal band of supporters around the w... See more
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
MATT KLEIN
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Second, I’m reflecting on a point former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale famously made in 1995: “There are only two ways to make money in business: bundling and unbundling.” I think we’re burnt out by the fragmentation that the D2C era brought to everything. After subscribing to tons of hyper-niche content over the years, the idea of a couple brands we ... See more
Michelle Rose Joseph • No. 13 — Reclaiming Discovery From the Algorithms
Yglesias’s newsletter, “Slow Boring,” has a readership that includes more than six thousand paid subscribers, and he is making twenty-seven thousand dollars a month
Anna Wiene • Is Substack the Media Future We Want?
Japanese Kissa by Kissa, Norm Maclean, Toni Morrison, Akiya in Japan, Howtown, Bobby Fingers, and more — Roden newsletter issue 094
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According to an advertising agency I consulted, for example, a weekly podcast that generates thirty thousand downloads per episode should be able to reach Kelly’s target of generating a hundred thousand dollars a year in income. Earning a middle-class salary by talking through a digital microphone to a fiercely loyal band of supporters around the w... See more
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
Brookings Institute
Sarah Kessler • Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work
