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# What I learned from a year on Substack
- URL: https://werd.io/what-i-learned-from-a-year-on-substack/
- Published: 2021-09-17T01:18:31.000Z
- Updated: 2021-09-17T01:18:31.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

“The result is a job that feels more durable, and sustainable, than any other employment I’ve had. In the past, to lose my job might require only a bad quarter in the ad market, the loss of an ally in upper management, or the takeover of my company by some indifferent telecom company. Today, I can really only lose my job if thousands of people decide independently to “fire” me. As a result, I’ve never felt more empowered to cover the issues I find most meaningful: the fraught, unpredictable collisions between big tech platforms and the world around them.”

\[[Link](https://www.platformer.news/p/what-i-learned-from-a-year-on-substack)\]