Five Things: September 5, 2024
"Democratizing access to creativity." Five Things for September 5, 2024
"Democratizing access to creativity." Five Things for September 5, 2024
"Data-informed, never data-driven." Five Things for August 22, 2024
"If Goldman Sachs is saying this, things are very, very bad." Five Things for July 11, 2024
"People are the answer to the problems of bits." Five Things for June 20, 2024
"One of the few book-related things I’d save in a fire." Five Things: January 4, 2024.
It's an unfortunate truth about books that it's never simply been about being a good writer, but as literal thousands of new books are published every month, marketability is arguably more important — and harder to define — than it's ever been.
I don't usually buy into "blame the user" for most problems, but our collective addiction to vanity metrics ruined everything, and even those who didn't buy into them have suffered the consequences. The problem exists between keyboard and chair.