Sunday Digest: Platforms, Publishers, and...Politics

Hello and Happy Sunday!

If you peek below, you may notice that this week’s index is a bit…Spartan. That’s partly because we’re rethinking the Digest — how it should look, what it should contain — and partly because there’s one category that’s particularly pertinent this week (well, unless you’re the founder of Soylent).

This probably isn’t the first place you’ll read about the election today. But whether you’re tiring of hearing how important voting is, or if you’re the one saying it to everyone you know, one simple, cheesy thing is true: voting is a way to make yourself heard.

Why mention any of that? The theme of the individual voice — particularly in contrast to larger, collective noise — runs through today’s Digest.

There’s Mario Gabriele standing up to censorship. The dozens of independent creators writing on platforms we suspect might eventually become publishers. There are the founders wrestling with whether they should “do politics” or not. Even if you’re only looking at the corners of the internet we tend to cover, the work of self-expression is everywhere. It’s a constant practice — as a great writer said to us this week, “It took a while to get a voice that felt more like mine.”

So read what you like, ignore what you don’t, and let us know about all of it.

Oh, and vote.

https://twitter.com/danshipper/status/1321824013577080834

(If you’re reading this and you haven’t made like Dan yet – what’s your plan?)

Everything Index - Week of 11/1

Articles we published — 7
Podcasts we released — 3
Live Conversations we hosted — 2
Amazing Average — 50%
(Average number of readers who thought our articles were “Amazing” this week)
Days Until the Election — 2

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This Week’s Top Posts

Ranked by the % of people who rated the post “amazing” in our feedback forms.

📐What You Need to Know About the Ant Financial IPO by Yiren Lu and Grace Zhang in Napkin Math (1,204 words)

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🔮Facebook's cloud gaming strategy: smarter than it seems🔒 by Nathan Baschez in Divinations (997 words)
⚡️Action Item: Progress Over Process, Remembering What You Read, Zettelkasten🔒by Dan Shipper in Superorganizers (581 words)
💞#39 - Cultivating Caring🎧 by Dan Shipper & Nathan Baschez on Talk Therapy (14 min)
🕊Jerry Colonna on Co-Founder Resentment by Andy Sparks in Ask Jerry (1,224 words)
📚How I Spend Five Minutes Per Day on Email🔒 by Nat Eliason in Almanack (2,091 words)
💝Building The Best Tools for Creators, with Joseph Albanese🎥 on Means of Creation (time TK)
💝News Roundup #6: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Livestreams on Twitch🔒 in Means of Creation (1,579 words)
🗣Episode Two: The Function of Form🎧 on The Long Conversation (1 hr)
💞#40 - Engagement is the Ice Cream, Polarization is the Vegetables🎧 by Dan Shipper & Nathan Baschez on Talk Therapy (18 min)

COMING UP THIS WEEK (NO, NOT THAT)

This week on The Long Conversation, the team will be talking pedagogy, otherwise known as a few of Rachel’s Favorite Things: how are we taught to write and how might that contribute to a trauma around self-expression? What is this anxiety we feel when it comes to that blank page? What is the role of the body in writing through our digital omnipresence? Let this TLC be a balm for the week to come.

Attend TLC #4: Writing as a Way of Being