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That's incredible man. It's rare to joke around in one moment and have "real talk" the next. As long as you're getting feedback you're good. When you no longer hear criticism it means those around you don't care anymore.
I'm really lucky to have a couple of managers that I could chop it up with, party in Vegas, have drinks at a bar on a Friday, etc, and still have hard conversations. I think because of our friendships, it made those hard conversations telling me to get my act together better. They knew my commitment and I knew theirs.
Apple Notes is beloved and Markdown is adored.
Match made in heaven.
Hope it happens.
Behind the ultimatums and urgency, leaders are admitting they need your help.
Some of these memo's are stark. I love this framing though... the urgency of the message from CEOs is a reflection of their need for a bottom up approach to AI adoption at your company.
Instagram remains the frontrunner priority platform (92%) for most social marketers, but a perhaps surprising second place: LinkedIn (52%) beat out TikTok by 2%.
Instagram is still incredibly popular in newsletter advertising circles. I've yet to test out the META ads platform myself but will take if for a spin soon.
Writing is a gateway to so much more. Your value can be sold in multiple ways and writing is the format people are LEAST LIKELY TO PAY FOR.
I view writing online, especially on Substack, similarly to creating videos on YouTube. Nobody pays for videos on YouTube, yet, there is money to be made.
We don't want more info. And we're not paying for life lessons or poetry posts – that all must be free.
What if the future of paid content is free?
What if creators become more like artists and customers are true fans?
I'm paying writers right now not because I read all of their gated content, I'd still pay them even if everything was publicly available.
Startup founders are the happiest people in tech: They’re the only group growing more optimistic while consistently outranking everyone else in workplace well-being.
There's probably a correlation between startup founder happiness and the ability to build and grow quickly without needing to raise money from investors.
AI has been irreversibly threaded into the fabric of modern knowledge work. Drawing hard lines between what’s human and what’s not is counterproductive. It only serves to distract us from what actually matters: the quality of thought, and by extension, the work itself. This assumption also makes people feel like they have to hide the fact that they’re using these tools at all. And in doing that we risk losing honesty, and the space to experiment in the open.
We are so concerned with how something is made that we lose sight of the fact that punctuation helps our writing sound more natural. More rhythmic. More, dare I say, human.
As convenient as social media is, it scatters the information like bread being fed to ducks. You then have to hunt around for the info or hope the magical algorithm gods read your mind and guide the information to you. The ones who prioritize comfort will stay in their algorithmic bubbles, while those who care about broadening their horizons will prioritize finding things on their own. Search long enough and eventually you will find what you're looking for. Eventually.
If it hasn't already, human curation will come back in vogue. The company Digg is prepping for a splashy comeback. Weekly roundup-style newsletters from smart people like Packy McCormick and Evan Armstrong are still some of the most valuable things you'll see anywhere on the internet. Algorithmically driven content consumption is exhausting. The humans tell me what matters most, and I trust them.
99% of writers are barely scratching the surface of what this platform can do.They're leaving money on the table. Missing massive growth opportunities. And worst of all? Working 10x harder than they need to be.
I just started leveraging Substack Live and it's been incredible. I'm not experiencing explosive growth for the newsletter, but something far better... personal emails. People have started to reach out to me, unprompted, for the first time in ages.
What I love most about Substack Live is that you don't need a fancy studio or the best setup to get started and provide value. As long as you've got a good mic and a phone, you're good.
Claude Sonnet 4 is a state of the art coding model. It's a leap forward in complex codebase understanding, and we expect developers will experience across the board capability improvements. – Michael Truell (CEO, Cursor)
It's, of course, ridiculously early... but both Opus and Sonnet 4 inside Cursor make far fewer mistakes than their predecessors, and I find myself yelling at them less often. I'm in love.