I've written professionally in the past, studied digital media for my undergrad, and recently started a Substack about poetry of all things (I have a day job, obviously).
I'm excited about Substack, but I'm also not thrilled about Notes, though hopeful. Twitter is hell and I don't want its ethos imported into Substack.
Help the little guys grow their newsletters without making us dance.
Before I got into marketing, I was very serious about poetry too Nathan. Twitter is sadly really imploding and burning bridges in the process. What is the bridge to the future of social media? It's not bright I am afraid.
I'm encouraged that Substack has a vast diversity of Newsletters including those quirky ones like comics, visual artists, photographers, poets, artists and in real life clubs of a variety of kinds. I love the local News experiments and there are a vast array of cultural experiments.
If Substack has 17k paid writers, I wonder how many of those consider it a serious side-gig for monetization or even their full-time job? I could make a pretty fair estimated guess about this, but it would likely get me in trouble.
Cool. Over the years I've noticed a lot of marketers have a background in poetry.
As far as paid writers, yeah, I was surprised when I first heard that 17K number. I'm certainly not expecting to make more than some beer money I. The next few years. Glad I'm not in the hustle but Godspeed!
It really is all so predictable, isn't it? I'd have thought Twitter/Musk would have been better off not poking Substack in the eye. But then again Musk is crazy like a fox.
Thanks for the write up, Michael.
I've written professionally in the past, studied digital media for my undergrad, and recently started a Substack about poetry of all things (I have a day job, obviously).
I'm excited about Substack, but I'm also not thrilled about Notes, though hopeful. Twitter is hell and I don't want its ethos imported into Substack.
Help the little guys grow their newsletters without making us dance.
Nathan
Before I got into marketing, I was very serious about poetry too Nathan. Twitter is sadly really imploding and burning bridges in the process. What is the bridge to the future of social media? It's not bright I am afraid.
I'm encouraged that Substack has a vast diversity of Newsletters including those quirky ones like comics, visual artists, photographers, poets, artists and in real life clubs of a variety of kinds. I love the local News experiments and there are a vast array of cultural experiments.
If Substack has 17k paid writers, I wonder how many of those consider it a serious side-gig for monetization or even their full-time job? I could make a pretty fair estimated guess about this, but it would likely get me in trouble.
Cool. Over the years I've noticed a lot of marketers have a background in poetry.
As far as paid writers, yeah, I was surprised when I first heard that 17K number. I'm certainly not expecting to make more than some beer money I. The next few years. Glad I'm not in the hustle but Godspeed!
I really cannot handle the PR Twitter wars between Elon Musk and Substack (which feels oddly staged): https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/7/23674185/substack-twitter-retweet-like-disabled-block
It really is all so predictable, isn't it? I'd have thought Twitter/Musk would have been better off not poking Substack in the eye. But then again Musk is crazy like a fox.