The Substack Paradox: community, control, the myth of lock-in, golden handcuffs, platform power, writer agency, exit, & voice. ShareShare Brad DeLong's Grasping RealityShare Brad DeLong's Grasping RealityI went to the SubStack Party at Shotwell's Saloon in San Francisco's Mission neighborhood last week. SubStack CEO Chris Best gave a little talk.
SubStack CEO Chris Best gave a little talk. He said the right things. I then took my notes and fed them into the skill-prompt I call "thucydides-speech" I have on my Dia Browser installation.
I then took my notes and fed them into the skill-prompt I call "thucydides-speech" I have on my Dia Browser installation. This is what came out:SubTuringChrisBestBot: What is the real engine of our shared endeavor. It is tempting, in an age of digital marvels, to attribute success to the cleverness of algorithms, the robustness of code, or the magnitude of capital investment.