Still trying to make up my mind whether the drift towards artisan, individually hand-crafted essays is a supply-side speculative trend/wishful writing, or a demand side trend from readers who want a more premium/custom reading experience over commodity mass-content sausage 🤔
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Ie is it refugees from Brooklyn and typography nerds in Berlin writing for each other? Or are people beyond those circles reading this stuff instead of Medium dreck?
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thinking in the logic of the marketplace is a bit self defeating and cynical - maybe there are just lots of people who have noticed there’s something worth saying, and a lot of people interested in new perspectives on things
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You’re just using alternative words for what is still a market perspective. You’re saying there is supply and demand for the new genre.
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Okay but if you’re going to approach it from a market perspective you’re always going to miss something - fine if that’s how you want to see it, but maybe that’s not how the people reading and writing it see it
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We’re talking past each other. Just because I’m interested in the market perspective doesn’t mean I don’t see or don’t care about other perspectives.
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Yeah that’s fair enough. Maybe the most interesting thing is what the wider marketplace isn’t able to cater for and why - I mean it’s not like a tiny niche you’re talking about after all
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