I love a lot of successful people who make art I consider magnificent. At the same time, I think something enormous is lost when the only people who get to give lasting voice to the human condition and the present moment are hyper-organized high-achievers or generationally wealthy (most likely both)

Like Spotify are trying to do with podcasts and ignoring RSS, Substack are trying to do this with email - another company trying to own an ostensibly open protocol for the sake of "ease" and network effects...

Listening to the Tank Museum talking about the creator economy is inspiring, but I do worry about institutions being reliant on increasingly enshittified big platforms. What happens to that community if the platform fails or changes the algorithmic levers? #MuseTech24

I can tell you from my own personal experience that Anil is 100% right about Substack overselling its "network effect" to try to lock people in.

(1) Seeking broad reading recommendations! Interested in work on how the time/space available for participation in public life is shaped. For example, I've loved the below recently for understanding the history of changing divisions of private/public space in Europe and US. 🧵