Keenen Charles

The religious extremism in the US regime is concerning...

We're Cursed In the past few years I've been thinking a lot about curses. How do we keep repeating these cycles of choosing hatred of others instead of our own interests? And all my thoughts have led back to the o...

we're cursed. keenen.xyz/were-cursed/

A Microsoft employee disrupted the company’s Build developer conference in Seattle, Washington, this morning, protesting against the company’s cloud and AI contracts with the Israeli government. Full story here: bit.ly/3H4i9uJ

Hey Nate happy to chat, just followed you back!

No idea what's going on in this trailer but I can't wait

The "Good" Internet In the past, I've been negative about the prospects of the world moving to decentralised social media platforms. The average person doesn't care if their data is being misused or locked in. Not enough...

With all the tech companies going mask off, I wrote about the good parts of the internet and how we need to grow them

keenen.xyz/the-good-int...

"The greatest danger to our future is apathy. We can't all save the world in a dramatic way, but we can each make our small difference, and together those small differences add up. The question is: What kind of impact do you want to make?"

– Jane Goodall

Fabulous 🇺🇸💥

Opinion | Don’t Believe Him (Gift Article) Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

It depends...but beehiiv is free to start with so I'd give it a try first

Substack is the easiest to get started and grow. beehiiv has more advanced features and monetization tools.

I use Ghost and it's really simple + you can have paid subscriptions but less features overall.

Since you've already got an audience I'd say beehiiv or Ghost are best for the long term.

Meta goes MAGA On Tuesday morning, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced changes to how the company will handle content moderation across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

1. Zuckerberg announced he was getting rid of Meta's fact-checking program, one of several moves designed to curry favor with Trump

Fact-checking itself is important but Meta's program was very bad. It was always just a PR operation. When it stopped serving that purpose, it was killed

Zuck isn't letting Elon take his crown as most evil tech CEO without putting up a fight

Stuff you could do in 2025 that will increase your luck surface area:

- Podcast
- Give a talk
- Take a course
- Go to meetups
- Promote your work
- Go to a conference
- Publish on YouTube
- Create a side-project
- Write a blog/newsletter
- Attend a founder retreat
- Build something in public

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Can't believe it's been 5 years of writing this report on the state of email newsletters and trends in the industry based on data from @inboxreads.co

Echoes a lot of my thoughts on the direction Substack has been going in.

Newsletters are great because you own your audience and you're not tied to any platform. I'm weary of any one trying to change that.