Sublime
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Criticism, to me, is ultimately a practice of paying attention.
Anne Helen Petersen • "Taste Hierarchies Like These Stink"
Its signal quality is intimacy. The knowledge we have about celebrities makes us feel we know them. We
Claire Dederer • Monsters
The prolific blogger and speaker has a reputation for putting his finger on whatever is broken in the marketing industry. And once he does, he presses it. Hard.
Jay Acunzo • Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work
Who you read—and pay to read—is a budding social signal, a way to broadcast sophistication and align you with a niche intellectual tribe.
Substack’s promise is that the best writing will rise to the top. But, in reality, the best writers—on Substack or anywhere else—aren’t just creators of content; they’re mirrors for aspiration, revealing something... See more
Substack’s promise is that the best writing will rise to the top. But, in reality, the best writers—on Substack or anywhere else—aren’t just creators of content; they’re mirrors for aspiration, revealing something... See more
Anu Atluru • Thoughts For Sale
But whether Substack is good for writers is one question; another is whether a world in which subscription newsletters rival magazines and newspapers is a world that people want.
Anna Wiene • Is Substack the Media Future We Want?
A certain strand of technology might be accelerating, but culture is going nowhere in particular — a decaying orbit around a decades-old gravity well; cycling & recycling; pastiche & déjà vu; playlist set to loop.
Robin Sloan • The Golden Sardine
Glenn McDonald,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
New @ScreenshotEssay is out today:
Duolingo, Bumble, and the Rise of Consumer SaaS