Substack’s Ideology

The point isn’t just to make money—it’s to change the systems that human attention flows through. You can’t understand Substack without understanding this.

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Sebastian Herold about 3 years ago

I never thought about Substack and the ideology behind it in such a way. Thank you for this insightful piece of writing. It helped me to broaden my perspective.

Jon Christensen about 3 years ago

Great post. I liked your personal story... and it makes me wonder if you've ever written down more of the story of your journey from substack to where you are now?

Also, I found myself wanting to reply during the part about notifications. I personally feel that push notifications are significantly worse than email at getting people to come into an app to read something potentially long and time consuming. I usually get push notifications while checking out at the grocery story or explaining to a kid why they can't have the thing they're begging for. And the problem with that is I swipe them away and they're gone forever. At least in email I can leave something unread if I want to come back to it (a dangerous and slippery slope if I want to retain inbox zero I know). I'll definitely go back to my inbox because I have to, but I haven't been able to make a habit of going to the substack app in the same way I have of burning 5 (ok 15) minutes on Tik Tok.