Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Shane Smith
@shanesmith
Newsletters go back at least as far as the Middle Ages, but these days, with full-time jobs at stable media companies evaporating—between the 2008 recession and 2019, newsroom employment dropped by 23 percent—Substack offers an appealing alternative.
cjr.org • The Substackerati
Jason said, “‘Television is a medium because it’s neither rare nor well-done.’ Isn’t that how that saying goes?”
Curtis Sittenfeld • You Think It, I'll Say It: Ten scorching stories of self-deception by the Sunday Times bestselling author
Is the Tech Press Bad? With The Verge's Casey Newton
open.spotify.com- After consulting with Tiago, whose course David particularly enjoyed, and hours of filming with a Hollywood film crew, David has a final product: A scalable writing course that utilizes pre-recorded video content and a helpful social community of writers (the latter being what separates Write of Passage from other online courses)
Anthony Pompliano • Writing for Leverage, Teenage Billionaires, The Problem with Mainstream Media, and More - David Perell on Off the Chain, Hosted By Anthony Pompliano • Podcast Notes
But now: Tech, phones, and social media create what David calls an “ever-ending now” (99%+ of what people consume is stuff produced in the last 24 hours)
Anthony Pompliano • Writing for Leverage, Teenage Billionaires, The Problem with Mainstream Media, and More - David Perell on Off the Chain, Hosted By Anthony Pompliano • Podcast Notes
Dave Thackeray
@thack
Constantly trying to figure things out. Regularly failing. Making progress - by some vanishing measure.
Homogeneity of style: A Substack newsletter can have an About page, but that’s it. There will never be anything like Nadia’s notes which are a regularly updated half-baked stream of consciousness, or Guzey’s list of Tweets or even Nintil’s categories.