One Hustling, Tireless Scribe’s Guide to Writing for Passion and Profit
From having a plan early on to doubling down on his writing routine, novelist Kern Carter shares the secret sauce behind how he landed three book deals — and paid his bills in the meantime.
Author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah discusses shunning stereotypes, the power of rejection, and navigating the overt connection between art and commercial.
Ironically, Search is Gmail’s Achilles Heel & the wedge (with AI) to build a great next generation email client — The Information Forum
Everyone is salivating ATM about the idea of GPT competing with google search / giving GOOG competition ‘for the first time in 20 years’ — maybe… > But what I am personally more excited for / waiting for is for someone to seriously challenge gmail (which for me is a way higher lock-in product than google search)… with AI. All the startup attempts to dethrone gmail come ...
I have 19 years of personal history locked up in gmail, but that data-set is completely un-usable to me.
The Substack frenzy seems like a thing of the past, but lots of publishers are still leaning into newsletters. "They’re a great minimally viable product."
It’s strange to think that I knew what Substack was as soon as it was put in front of me. But I did—it was an attempt to wrap email in a platform, with promising initial promises, but the goal of strengthening Substack itself.Sure, there were a lot of things about Substack that looked good at the outset—the fact that they effectively gave the platform away for free was a vast improvement over the model of charging money after you reached a certain subscriber size—but every new publisher that jo…
Are there any new email apps out there? (Early 2022 edition) - Software - MPU Talk
Just checking in with the MPU community… has anything new and noteworthy in email apps happened recently? (In case you didn’t know, I am constantly in search of the mythical app that will solve my email woes on all platforms. The mythical app is basically Mail, but with, like, a Share Sheet. In lieu of that I am constantly trying other options. I have been using Airmail for the past year or more, but it is not super polished. I don’t know why I torture myself looking for a better email app. I ...
Did MySpace Kill the Potential for Customization on Social Media?
Of the many things that social platforms have taken away from us, perhaps the most disappointing is the freedom to customize our spaces. We need it back.