I get too many emails.
A lot in order that I needed to arrange separate electronic mail addresses for issues like subscriptions, and so on.
I’m impressed with the general high quality of Substacks I obtain; I’ve a couple of favorites that I by no means miss. However it hass develop into too simple so as to add one other, and so they all it piled up in my inbox, trying a little bit an excessive amount of like homework.
It not too long ago received worse: I’ve seen what number of of my subscription emails within the inbox (see above) at the moment are Substacks. Not content material with taking up my electronic mail, Substack now needs to advocate extra Substacks I ought to subscribe to, plus each current Substacker provides me three of their different substacks to cross-promote.
Please cease.
I don’t want MORE data, evaluation and newsletters moderately, I need BETTER content material. Succinct, to the purpose, helpful. Semafor is a latest favourite. However I’m going to implement a buddy’s rule: IF he can not bear in mind the final time he opened and skim a substack, he unsubscribed. Addition by way of subtraction and all that.
I scan WSJ or FT or WaPo or NYT on-line and see a number of issues that curiosity me from their house web page or listing. Presently, I can’t fairly try this with Substack. I can peruse a web based inbox, however there may be little in the best way of latest content material discovery shopping what I’m already subscribed to.
The Substack publication pus publication format with high-quality journalists actually took the world by storm. I don’t know whether or not its a long-term staple or a flash within the pan, however it feels to me like I’m now at peak Substack…
