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Maybe the devices that we ended up with are too flat, too homogenous and standardized. They possess us more than we possess them. Everyone’s iPhones look the same, but the Pokedex and Digivice were unique (as I recall) to each owner. They had funky, geometric forms and garish cases and buttons. They weren’t just flat glass touchscreens.
The Dream of the Personal Machine
Kyle Chayka
And so when one wonders why newsletters “came out of nowhere” just a few years ago, I think part of it is Substack providing a catalyst for a change in user behavior, mostly on the demand side. (As Kevin Kwok has [observed](https://kwokchain.com/2020/01/23/underutilized-fixed-assets/), after you've recruited sufficient people willing to pay money, professional supply will quickly come to dominate most of your market, drawn primarily by economic incentives.)
BAM Is Now Reader-Supported
Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
It's terrible, I used to be cute, that's the trouble. If I was always ugly it would have been fine.
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Let me just take a look in the mirror so I can get really nauseous.
EP.02 YOU SOUND LIKE MY F*ING MOTHER With Street Photographer Jill Freedman
Wrong Side Of The Lens
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