I just finished his book today - interested to hear what you thought of it! Might be a good one for the book club :)

Why I Won't Write on Substack There is something perverse about every voice of record, every journalist with a profile, every writer with an audience abandoning ship for Substack. It's been a growing trend for the past few years, and it's getting worse. Substack has done an excellent job convincing intelligent people from legacy media backgrounds

No platform is ever truly free.

That applies whether we’re talking about TikTok, Google, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook - or Substack. And if you think to yourself, this time, it'll be different, good luck to you.

But sooner or later, you're going to get fucked.

Such a huge loss. 18f was a model for us in Ontario (not just because we managed to scoop @hillaryh.bsky.social ) - but the approach of bringing in skilled digital experts, who were kind and thoughtful, to work alongside govt teams was a game changer.

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