Successful series in the making.
People love meta-content about how the maker made the thing they made. And smart for SS to accelerate native video creation by making more of what they want to see on the platform & sharing it.
I saw a wise post about how important it is to not focus directly on a goal. Success comes as a consequence of following what you care about, and enjoying the work needed to create something great in that pursuit.
Emily’s story is an embodiment of that principle. She didn’t set out to create New York’s hottest newsletter. It happened because she cares so deeply about the work she does in service of, and along with, her community.
I am incredibly biased but I love everything about the premise of this new show. And this is such an excellent conversation btw @Emily_Sundberg and @hamishmckenzie.
New show for Substack: At a bar, an open tab means the conversation is still going. In a browser window, it means there's something more to do. Open Tab is a show about the people who are beating this chaotic moment in media and building something successful by themselves
Introducing Open Tab: a new interview series where independent media founders tell us how they did it.
Most of what we hear from media insiders is a story of decline. But a new class of independent media founders is creating powerful businesses around their own work.
Jack Clark @jackclarkSF co-founder of Anthropic @claudeai, Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkeshpodcast, and I had a good discussion, and it has been published, free to all, at the link below. I greatly admire both Jack and Dwarkesh and was happy to participate.
The AI revolution is here. Will the economy survive the transition?
https://t.co/3yPqLJ3HK0
A survey of 2K Substack publishers finds 45.4% use AI, mainly for research; among them, 51.1% are over age 45, 55% are men, and 85% of tech publications use it (@aswedback / On Substack)
https://t.co/BRBpDgoNu4
https://t.co/A9WAtBtcdL