pooooowerful! Thanks for this series and for condensing the take-aways.

For me, value-for-value, internet-native money, and micro payments represents a much better path for creative projects than subscriptions, selling fake scarcity, merchandising, begging for coffees, downloadable products, email lists, advertising clicks, affiliate sales, and any other substitute for exchanging real value through words.

ah, yes. VERY MUCH. I never realized that you shared these posts on different platforms, was just waiting for them here... gonna go find them on Nostr now.

Substack was very disappointing. No real engagement or conversation.
I feel it has become a closed-source echo chamber for growth marketers and wannabe writers.

That has been my impression, too, from afar.