# What I learned from a year on Substack by Casey Newton - Platformer

<https://www.platformer.news/p/what-i-learned-from-a-year-on-substack>

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- Saved: September 22, 2021 (2021-09-22T12:10:25Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

Casey Newton made news when he left The Verge and "went direct" using Substack. These reflections on the first year doing that are interesting.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT196: Weekly Thing #196 / iPhone 13, iOS 15, watchOS 8](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/196/), Notable

## Same host

- [How Microsoft crushed Slack - Platformer](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6be78358a526/) (platformer.news, December 7, 2020)
- [Claude Code for writers](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/fdf3dd361d3d/) (platformer.news, January 20, 2026)

## Saved the same week

- [Chris Gilliard aims to abolish Silicon Valley’s surveillance machine - The Washington Post](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f299c2132f31/) (washingtonpost.com, September 22, 2021)
- [The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history | The Guardian](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ebde6a168fea/) (theguardian.com, September 22, 2021)
- [The Algorithm Tweaks Won't Save Us by Charlie Warzel - Galaxy Brain](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c6bcad1b102c/) (warzel.substack.com, September 22, 2021)
- [Multiperspective System Architecture Diagramming · Ilograph developer blog](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/be0f59819175/) (blog.ilograph.com, September 22, 2021)
- [Q&A With Co-Creator of the 6502 Processor - IEEE Spectrum](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/be1d918a0eed/) (spectrum.ieee.org, September 22, 2021)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.platformer.news/p/what-i-learned-from-a-year-on-substack