Chris Best

And now there's people that come that are like, all of the interesting things I read are here.

And I feel like if I'm not here, I'm not even in the conversations that I find most interesting.

What are the most popular genres on Substack?

It kind of changed over time.

We have these eras.

There was a long time when it was kind of like the sort of the heterodox, you know, the Barry Weiss axis.

There was like a period where that people thought of Substack as that, you know, the right wing of the left mainstream kind of.

You know, we went through a whole Bitcoin era where a lot of the... There was like a Bitcoin rally and there was a huge segment of crypto stuff.

We're in kind of the... You know, Kamala Harris has a Substack now.

We've got kind of like the... I would say the mainstream Democrat universe is like thriving on Substack in 2025.

We've had these eras and at any given time, it's tempting for people to like...

think that the current flourishing that's happening on Substack is the whole platform.

But the reality is that it's this index fund of culture.

It's got all these different things and it changes all the time, which makes it fun.

There's a lot that are very good.

I mean, one that is kind of special to me is Astral Codex 10, Scott Alexander.

He's sort of a rationalist essayist and thinker in the weird Berkeley rationalist scene.

But he's somebody that I've been reading for a long time that I really like.

What is Substack Defender?

Substack Defender.