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There's a New Country Ranking and You're Not Going to Like It(atvbt.com)
3 points by ubac 2y ago|1 comments
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GiveWell as Moneyball(blog.givewell.org)
1 points by ubac 2y ago|0 comments
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Books on Technical Communication, by Kalid Azad of BetterExplained(fivebooks.com)
1 points by ubac 3y ago|0 comments
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by ubac 3y ago
thanks, fixed!
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Coworking from Home(bbc.com)
48 points by ubac 3y ago|22 comments
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The Cure for Hiccup Exists, and It's Free(theatlantic.com)
27 points by ubac 4y ago|17 comments
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A Guide to Rationalists(thebrowser.com)
2 points by ubac 4y ago|0 comments
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by ubac 4y ago
Ghost starts at $9 per month though -- obviously depends on people's circumstances but I would say that's reasonable for many people as a personal blog
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by ubac 4y ago
Incredible. Well done to the Ghost team -- every new update is a dream.
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Uninterrupted Work – nonlinear returns vs. high fixed startup costs(atvbt.com)
2 points by ubac 4y ago|0 comments
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Prediction Ever: Darwin and the Founder Effect(atvbt.com)
1 points by ubac 4y ago|0 comments
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Is it possible to have negative opportunity costs?(atvbt.com)
1 points by ubac 4y ago|1 comments
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The biggest AI risk is setting off the nukes(atvbt.com)
2 points by ubac 5y ago|1 comments
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by ubac 5y ago
I think there's a way to skip that with a URL parameter, I just unfortunately can't remember what it is -- something like /about?welcome=false or whatever. (I realise that's a hacky workaround and only solves part of the
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by ubac 5y ago
I just want to get this prediction down in writing in as many venues as possible: Substack will eventually offer (opt-in) bundling for authors, where the customer pays $x per month and Substack distributes that to the authors in the bundle.
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by ubac 5y ago
ha! Yes I definitely think the original overbilling was incompetence not malice, but not just saying "we're so sorry we overbilled you, we're not sure how much we took exactly but please let us give you $x to definitely cover
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by ubac 5y ago
hey! Sorry, there's a lot of history here, Hamish has been very unpleasant to me and many writers I love, as well as wrongly continuing to bill me after I left his platform -- I realise otherwise I might have sounded unduly hostile, so
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by ubac 5y ago
Oh thanks that means a lot to me! I would say it was partially sorted -- I eventually dm'ed their PR person (once they hired one) and somehow she pretty quickly figured out how to pay back part of the money, but refused to send any
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by ubac 5y ago
Yeah I'm not talking about the advances, although way more writers than people realise have been given advances. Basically Substack has been forced to offer pretty hefty benefits to (try) to stop writers from leaving, there's a to
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by ubac 5y ago
You continued taking your cut from my subscriptions after I'd left your platform (I think because you didn't really understand how Stripe Connect works) and just refused to pay the money back for over a year. What was the deal wit
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by ubac 5y ago
Hi Hamish -- how much of your success do you attribute to the secret benefits you offer certain writers to prevent them from leaving? And is it sustainable in the long run (or does that not really matter to you?)
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by ubac 5y ago
Chris can we get a promise in writing from you that you will never implement bundles in such a way that writers couldn't leave your platform and take 100% of their paying subscribers with them?
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How can we know if paid search advertising works?(causalinf.substack.com)
156 points by ubac 5y ago|107 comments
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Request for Punctuation Marks(atvbt.com)
3 points by ubac 5y ago|0 comments
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by ubac 5y ago
also, I'd love to know more about how/when people apply this: > “The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There’s something wrong with the way you are measuring it”
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by ubac 5y ago
This is incredible. Also this bit struck me specifically: > That sounds bad, until you take a closer look at where the reports are coming from. Or more specifically, the one store where nearly half of all reports originated So often it s
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The Theory of Gut Bacteria Value(atvbt.com)
41 points by ubac 5y ago|29 comments
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How Antarctic explorers kept themselves sane on the voyage(lithub.com)
40 points by ubac 5y ago|34 comments
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Asking for help over email is the least effective(journals.sagepub.com)
2 points by ubac 5y ago|0 comments
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Open Source Maintainer's Song(youtube.com)
1 points by ubac 5y ago|0 comments

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