Even as a mid-tier Substacker there's just no incentive to pitch most Takes to mainstream outlets in 2021. This is both good (no gatekeeping) and bad (pernicious incentives/groupthink). There's a risk you get too comfortable in your oasis, never exploring the desert further.
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2/ I think the move is to just write either my Takey or Nerdy stuff for Substack, and basically only pitch longer mag pieces to major outlets? It doesn't seem like a bad solution but feels somehow dirty, or like cheating. But eh I could be overthinking.
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The tree of substack subscribers must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of publicly available takes and pieces
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