Substack Has A Problem
I'm a fan of Substack - but it looks like they might be hitting some issues as they rush to attract famous writers to the platform - and paying them. On the outside it looks good that famous writers use you - but if you are paying them - and not discllosing that - we have an issue.
Beyond that, to pay someone means that you are choosing not to pay someone else - at which point you are becoming a publisher - not a platform and thus arguably support/agree with those writers words and opinions. What then distinguished you from any other publishing vehicle.
Then again there is this (spolier alert - an opposite pov : Adding My Data Point To The Discussion Of Substack Advances.
It’s probably me … but why is the hey ‘mail to post a blog’ seen as being so hot … hasn’t Wordpress done that forever?
”Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately, it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.”
Bertrand Russell
Never heard of Hook until just now - while reading about a Craft update. Oh my.
Anyone with practical experience?
Seriously f*****d up ….
”No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By ‘business’ I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)Once you get your head around elementor .. it is crazy easy … I’ve used it to build a gateway to all things philpin and a new space at People First that remains a ‘work in process’ as I attempt to build a non linear summary of ‘what it’s all about’.
Somebody hasn’t got ‘TextExpander’ set as a TextExpander short cut.
#JustSayin
Unlike in the first two missions, the spacecraft was able to safely land—before it then blew up.
Technology Review clearly has a nuanced definition of ‘safely landed’.
”Perfection is nice, if you can afford it. We can’t.”
Dave Winer
I agree. Watch us destroy our own as we let the real enemies walk.
France and Cuomo are the two stories.
I have little faith that Trump will ever have a Sarkozy moment.
“Some people can forcefully occupy the People’s House, while others - those who are prevented from voting, who are aggressively policed, who are imprisoned at rates unmatched even by South Africa at the height of apartheid - are locked out.”
Steinbeck’s Productive Inactivity.
As one of my 4 favorite ‘John’s’ in the writing world … totally unsurprised that Cal Newport holds him up as an example of work efficacy. That said - 33 books in a lifetime is hardly taking it easy!
Erik Prince and the Failed Plot to Arm a Warlord in Libya
… such a lovely chap.
“Some people can forcefully occupy the People’s House, while others—those who are prevented from voting, who are aggressively policed, who are imprisoned at rates unmatched even by South Africa at the height of apartheid—are locked out.”