Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Build syndication relationships with websites and major publications, and get around the “duplicate content” rule.
Nicolas Cole • The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention
The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech
William Deresiewiczamazon.comGarrett Hardin in “The Tragedy of the Commons,” Science, December 13, 1968.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
Do I actually want to build a network of NYC writers and publishers and have printed essay books and be in the New Yorker to convince people I’m making a career out of a trade that is usually fruitless, or is this all just old-world vanity? Why not just exist on Substack and be fine with that?
Over the past thirty years, capitalist realism has successfully installed a ‘business ontology’ in which it is simply obvious that everything in society, including healthcare and education, should be run as a business.
Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
Over the past decade, the social networks broke their promise to content creators.
The backlash has just begun.
New @ScreenshotEssay: The Algorithmic Feed, Content Creators, and Broken Promises
POSSE model (‘publish on your site, syndicate elsewhere’)