This image looks like AI but I took it for real this afternoon while on hold with the IRS. If you’re gonna be hold with the IRS for two hours might as well walk on the beach.

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I find it hard to focus at work. Like...really hard. Especially because I work for myself.

Finding a daily planner that actually made sense to my brain changed everything. I think you should try it too so I'm running a challenge this month
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Amazing. I would use that milestone publicly in the drive. It works so well for publishers I've worked with and for folks like the Aftermath crew.

I had to talk to the IRS today because I got a $1k+ penalty and they were like "can you fax us your documentation" and I COULD because I use Traveling Mailbox. Thank god for them. Mailing letters and depositing checks for me and everything.

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oh amazing. does that seem doable? cuz that sounds like an extremely reasonable public goal that could be hit

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i feel like y'all should be getting paid first! what would it cost to do that?

Genuinely: Paywalling content is not a thing I love doing. I'd rather create in a world where writers & artists could share our stuff literally freely. The Flytrap is cooperatively owned by its founders, who put in a ton of as-yet unpaid work to produce ALL our content—including one free post/month.

Want to note here as well that while we have not paid OURSELVES, we have paid freelance writers and artists industry-standard rates, which is very important to us both as an organization, and as current/former freelancers who believe in independent media.

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Typebar magazine published a great essay by @ernie.tedium.co earlier this year about this. If you don’t own the audience relationship then you don’t own anything.

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I help people grow their revenue while staying free from platform dependence, but sure trust a tech company.

Surely they have your best interest in mind.

The one message I really want you to hear is "don't get locked into your platform" and some of you are hearing something else and end up getting married to a platform and that's a bad idea for your business.

Substack, Patreon, Squarespace, whatever. Do not trust a tech company with YOUR business.

oh that's even scarier

Yeah, it always feels like a lazy choice to me but if people like it, good for them i guess.

yeah im never gonna get why people switch to patreon but glad you like it

You've lost my respect if you can't separate "Substack is bad FOR YOU AS A CREATOR" from "You need to be on the holiest of holy platforms"

No one is saying everywhere else is GREAT. We've been warning you about how Substack is SCREWING YOU and you're finally paying attention

also i take huge issue with the "there's no good platform to go to" crowd because DUH WHY ARE YOU RELYING ON A PLATFORM TO BUILD YOUR BUSINESS FOR YOU

No one said everywhere else was the Saint Peter's cathedral of holiness. We just said Substack was bad FOR YOU.

probably would not choose Patreon bc you're now completely locked in and the fees are just as high but I celebrate this anyway i guess

HELL YEAH ALL THE COOL KIDS ARE DOING IT