Social media makes us angry and unfocused. Is email the answer? [Podcast]
The Recode team has published a podcast on ‘Social media makes us angry and unfocused. Is email the answer?’ featuring Chris Best.
Eric Johnson says, “Once upon a time, people had to work to find things to do and media to consume. These days, the inverse is true: We’re all desperate to get back the free time and ability to focus we used to have.
“Attention is your last finite resource,” Substack CEO Chris Best said on the latest episode of Recode Media. “You’re not looking for things. You’re never bored. You’re always constantly addicted to things. Now the next thing that you aspire to is regaining control of your time and your attention. Email newsletters are a way to do that.”
Substack helps writers start and run paid email newsletters, requiring that those who charge readers for their content charge at least $5 per month — a rule designed to keep the quality of the newsletters up, Best told The Verge’s Casey Newton. He argued that unlike social media, which tends to reward people who post outrageous things, email rewards the writers who can provide consistently useful information”.
Social media makes us angry and unfocused. Is email the answer?
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