Chris Best

Other people may have noticed that some of these trends are going on.

But he's like, here's how you could make this essay you're writing better.

You should add a section that just says, so what do you do about it?

how could this be different?

It's easy to complain.

It's easy to say, here's everything that's wrong.

It's much more interesting though.

It would be more interesting as a reader to have a theory of what could a new and better thing be.

And we started arguing basically.

And that argument turned into what became the core idea for Substack.

The core idea is that

the writers and the people who make the culture are the heroes.

And they need independence in order to give the thing they have to give to the world.

They need the freedom to make the things they want to make.

And they need to be able to make money.

And not just make money incidentally, but to be able to make money doing the work they believe in.

And that if you can create those conditions,

not only will it appeal to the best writers, the best makers, the things that will get created will be different and better.

Yeah, we were arguing about the thing.

And I've always felt that if you sort of need two things to have a