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Creators & publishing
Independent writing, creative work, and the systems that carry them.
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Getting restricted on Substack for commenting too much is like Formula 1 flagging you for too much forward motion.
Context & related ideasCommunity Highlights: the one Substack feature where the community is the documentation.
Context & related ideasOpenAI has pulled in former Patreon leadership to build new tools for creators and their communities. The patrons of the arts have become the patrons of the state-of-the-art models.
Context & related ideasCreators and streaming colliding - somewhere, a media executive just detected gravitational waves in the engagement dashboard.
Context & related ideasThe writers room’s latest addition hallucinates from time to time - but the final call still sits with the showrunner.
Context & related ideasEvery creator platform eventually discovers it isn’t selling tools. It’s selling escape velocity with a fee structure.
Context & related ideasThe supply of writing is approaching infinity. The supply of things worth saying remains stubbornly inelastic.
Context & related ideasThe Siege of the Blank Page: The words defect one by one… You keep showing up with glitter cannons.
Context & related ideasLooking for writers not writing about writing - that’s just an ouroboros eating its own words.
Context & related ideasGreat art really is the original anti-scroll technology. No dark pattern, no hook, no engagement hack - just a moment with enough gravity to make time behave.
Context & related ideasThe First Reader
When Product Design Externalizes the Cold Start Problem
- AI & machine learning
- Discovery
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- Creators & publishing
- Product systems
- Platforms & distribution
- Technology & culture
- Humans & machines