Hi. Yeah, I’m on Substack and apparently every Substacker’s favorite topic is Substack itself. Is it really? It’s not really my favorite topic, but I’ll take a look at this article and think about that. There are a lot of names mentioned here. A lot of people are on Substack. A lot of people seem to be making money there. I’m not one of them. I mean, I make a little bit of money, but it’s very, very small.
Now, raise your hand if like me, your email is inundated with more newsletters than you have time in the day to read. Since you’re reading this newsletter, I’m guessing many of these missives are coming courtesy of Substack, the 8-year-old publishing platform that’s seen explosive growth since the presidential election last year.
Most interesting.
Well, I have to tell you, I’m not inundated with newsletters that I have no time to read because when I don’t read them, I unsubscribe. Or these days I avoid subscribing entirely because I have no time to read them. I do have time to talk about it though. I think what we’re heading toward is a situation in which there’s going to be too much of everything and not enough behind it to merit the payment. And I am just a little bit worried about that myself. So these are things that bother me quite a bit in reading stuff like this. I mean, we have big names coming onto this platform and people feel threatened or something because they’re not making the leaderboard.
Making the leaderboard sometimes is not as awesome as you think it is. Sometimes it just does not last. I know in my case with Amazon, it did not last. So all of this obsession over numbers and where you end up on a leaderboard, I don’t know how much we really benefit by obsessing over these things. I’m thinking we don’t benefit much at all, that we’re better off trying to find a way to reach people without obsessing about these numbers. So I don’t know, but I, I’m trying to get at that a little bit with what I’m saying here. Maybe we need to just kind of relax and not worry so much about this stuff. That’s just my thought, thought for the day.
At some point I reached a point where I was burnt out and I just had to just relax and just not worry so much. So that’s what I have to say about that. And I hope that you’re having a good day, wherever you are, whoever you are, and whatever you’re doing, I’ll go back to exercising. I should have been exercising this whole time and I haven’t been. There, you see. Helps with the dystonia.
Okay? So I’ll be seeing you! Take care and yes, I’m in my Colonel Kurtz mode here, or whatever his name was who went after Colonel Kurtz. Half in shadow. The horror, the horror of the internet. Take care, be seeing you.
PS: It was Captain Willard played by the amazing Martin Sheen! 🙂
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PPS: Takes a while to get geared up, doesn’t it?
