Mike Solana

Also: "I've put my all Klingon Beat Poetry on Spotify and I'll never be able to make a living, and that is proof that Spotify doesn't support artists."

"Writers should be explicit about any bias they have, too." Literally laughed out loud at that one.

When do you think we will get to the point where the idea will start to fester in their minds that: "Maybe -- just maybe -- the ideas and orthodoxy I believe in is just not that popular and is actually quite uninteresting" Ohh never? damnit

If I were Substack, I’d offer to pay her for 3-6 months. Under one condition: When that changes absolutely nothing about her readership, because of course it won’t, she issues an apology and never writes on Substack again

I regularly pay for her writing. I even paid $50 to see her in person for her last book.

Just finished the piece. My question is: Is it possible to make Substack work? Clearly, not everyone can make it work. The quality of the content is what matters. But is it a good tool for high-quality content creators to get their material a sizeable audience?

Silicon Valley has combined WordPress, Mailchimp, and Stripe into one platform. Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. Hire more ethics majors!