profiles of people

Byrne Hobart, the unlikely oracle.

“So, with the goal of attracting enough buzz to help him land writing gigs, he doubled down on writing his newsletter, then a substack on tech and finance, with an audience of around 1200, largely made of tech and startup […]

fun facts

A visual network of 300 blogs.

“I thought it might be interesting to try to map the network that emerges from blogs linking to one another. … I started with astralcodexten.substack.com and continued following links as they were mentioned.” | learn more

on the blockchain

Substack vs. DAOstack.

“Decentralization doesn’t eliminate the hard problems. It doesn’t wish away wars over values; hierarchies of professional vs amateur; the challenges of developing and nurturing talent. And, token-based governance isn’t necessarily going to reach the best or most ethical solutions. But […]