It reminds me how, at one point, LEGO decided to start making toys instead of building kits. Their value plummeted, and it took a surprisingly long time for somebody to realize, "We have the best toy in the world... THAT'S what people want from us!" The people at the top can make appallingly bad choices.
I'm a lot more enthusiastic about Substack. I think it's perfect for a free newsletter funneling people toward a paid thing hosted on ghost. I get the benefits of the platform without the cost.
And I actually think Notes is pretty cool. It's Mastodon I have to keep making myself use.
Totally agree. I didn’t want chat and don’t use it. Notes is even worse. Not only do I not spend much time there, but the lack of content moderation and the CEO’s apparent lack of concern over hate speech and harassment makes me want to leave Substack. I never thought I would feel that way; until recently I loved Substack.
Your writing connects quickly and deeply when you put in words the questions that are at the front of my brain. Questions such as, Does anyone else see that Twitter is not a conversation and only a place where someone is broadcasting their thoughts? Does anyone else see that Substack is drifting from a journalist's place and into the Twitter sinkhole? What ever happened to doing something so well you will never have a competitor to trying to please everyone with some kind of Swiss Army knife approach of trying to overhype everything and dropping lower, by the hour, on the customer satisfaction meter?
I'm liking your work more and more Justin, as you take your stand and make your mark, where we can find you, consistently. Love the new website.... keep going. Let me know if you need a boost or anything I can say or do to accelerate you.
I signed up for your Ghost account! It looks amazing!
Your great analogy reminds me of my time in pharmaceutical sales. Big Pharma once made fortunes on blockbuster drugs, where it cast a large net to reap maximum profits. Zantac is one such example. The companies and consumers learned painful lessons from organizational greed. A jack-of-all trade approach has the potential to do more harm than good because it cannot meet a basic service tenant: the risks outweigh the reward. A lesson Twitter and Substack will learn the hard way.
It reminds me how, at one point, LEGO decided to start making toys instead of building kits. Their value plummeted, and it took a surprisingly long time for somebody to realize, "We have the best toy in the world... THAT'S what people want from us!" The people at the top can make appallingly bad choices.
I'm a lot more enthusiastic about Substack. I think it's perfect for a free newsletter funneling people toward a paid thing hosted on ghost. I get the benefits of the platform without the cost.
And I actually think Notes is pretty cool. It's Mastodon I have to keep making myself use.
"I also wonder how such an app gets developed when the current version of Twitter is held together with duct tape and hope." LOL and bravo Justin!
I like Substack, but why do I feel an aura of doom around it 😅
Totally agree. I didn’t want chat and don’t use it. Notes is even worse. Not only do I not spend much time there, but the lack of content moderation and the CEO’s apparent lack of concern over hate speech and harassment makes me want to leave Substack. I never thought I would feel that way; until recently I loved Substack.
Your writing connects quickly and deeply when you put in words the questions that are at the front of my brain. Questions such as, Does anyone else see that Twitter is not a conversation and only a place where someone is broadcasting their thoughts? Does anyone else see that Substack is drifting from a journalist's place and into the Twitter sinkhole? What ever happened to doing something so well you will never have a competitor to trying to please everyone with some kind of Swiss Army knife approach of trying to overhype everything and dropping lower, by the hour, on the customer satisfaction meter?
I'm liking your work more and more Justin, as you take your stand and make your mark, where we can find you, consistently. Love the new website.... keep going. Let me know if you need a boost or anything I can say or do to accelerate you.
Yes Yes Yes!!!!! I’ve been saying this myself. They’re all creating their own demise.....
I signed up for your Ghost account! It looks amazing!
Your great analogy reminds me of my time in pharmaceutical sales. Big Pharma once made fortunes on blockbuster drugs, where it cast a large net to reap maximum profits. Zantac is one such example. The companies and consumers learned painful lessons from organizational greed. A jack-of-all trade approach has the potential to do more harm than good because it cannot meet a basic service tenant: the risks outweigh the reward. A lesson Twitter and Substack will learn the hard way.