Experimenting With Substack
What am I doing? Where am I? Help!
Hello! Some small number of you have signed up to follow me on substack, probably drawn in by Aaron Rupar’s Public Notice. You’ve probably noticed that I do not actually Substack on my own recognizance. But! I’m thinking about changing that.
So! This is me trying to figure out how this thing works. If this has landed in your inbox, and feel like helping me out, maybe wave and indicate you received it? I’m also curious about whether folks would be open to paying for content if such content were available. And what are the (I think) eleven of you following me for? Politics coverage? Arts criticism? Our of curiosity? Some combination?
Also if you are regular substackers, let me know if there’s something obvious I’m not doing in this post that I should be! I really haven’t used this platform much, so these are baby steps here.
Thanks for following me; hopefully more to come(?!)
figured I'd test the comments out. Say hello if you're so inclined!
I think you have a good model in Aaron Rupar. I always perk up when I see you've written a piece for Public Notice.
Dan Pfeiffer's Message Box is interesting. Some posts are paywalled. Only subscribers can comment on any post.
As with any newsletter (Constant Contact, etc.) consistency is key. Whatever schedule you set, stick with it.
Substack is great because the emails keep showing up, even if reset are like me—I delete them without opening, but I've already seen the subject line.
I prefer the Substack app as a reader. I look for the badge number notification for my three (now four) newsletters, even when I'm avoiding my email. The Substack voice reader is superb. I actually prefer it to writers reading their own content.
I know you have many by lines but even before the Musk takeover, I'll go a few days without diving into Twitter. I'm happy to see the tweet embeds in the Substack newsletters.