Sunday
Substack finally acknowledges they essentially built a social network. I’m a fan of notes and the Substack app and I believe
is sincere here.
I have no idea how this is going to play out. However, but I think this goes one of two ways. It either destroys the platform within the next 5 years or it becomes THE human-powered respite for writers and creators that are fatigued from AI-slop and bot-replies elsewhere.
Substack either fades into irrelevance, or it becomes even more valuable than Twitter.
I don’t see a middle ground here.
What’s your take?
Monday
Since November 2022, the stock market is up more than 70 percent and job openings are down more than 30 percent. Nothing like this has happened in decades.
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Here’s a comment I left.
I’ve been mulling over this topic for months now and haven’t been able to articulate what I’m seeing and hearing. I live in Los Angeles, which now feels like ground zero for the bifurcated economy we seem to live in.
Tech is thriving here. Apple is building a new 536,000 square foot office in my backyard, while all of my friends who are gig workers or entertainment veterans are struggling. If you work in the tech industry, as I do, it does feel like a bubble that’s completely separated from reality.
But it feels so weird. And this feeling concerns me.
It feels like a new normal and not a flash that’s doomed to crash.
