Chris Best

There's a lot of really good journalism on Substack, more, I think, than people sometimes give credit for.

But I think it's broader than that.

You know, I think it's about culture, ultimately, stories and ideas.

I think Substack has helped journalism in a time that's been very fraught for journalism.

I think there's a lot of stuff that happens on Substack that is great, that is good journalism that otherwise might not exist.

It's been such a challenging time for that profession that I don't know that it's like, if that's even the main change that's happened in the past, you know, 10 years, but I'm optimistic.

One thing that springs to mind, you know Jonathan Haidt?

So he started a book on Substack.

He started serializing it.

about social media and phones and all of this stuff.

And I think he published a few chapters and he made a thing that eventually became a best-selling book.

I feel like we're probably still in the early innings of what I think of as the smartphone backlash or moral panic, depending on your point of view.

And a lot of that stuff was cooking on Substack pretty early.

Yeah.

The same people who read it will buy it again.

Yeah.

And in fact, having an email list of people that love to read you is one of the best places to sell a book.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's one place that I I'd love to expand into.