Notes on Notes, notes on Finland and other things

Welcome, new subscribers! The launch of Substack Notes, Substack’s new competitor to Twitter, has brought in quite a few of you. Thank you for signing up. I’m cautiously optimistic about the Notes platform. In the short-term I expect it will be better than Twitter, in part because that’s a low bar lately, and also because of selection effects: the existing Substack userbase tends toward smart readers and writers. Their absence on Twitter is already palpable, as if some of the most interesting posters have been raptured away to a better place, leaving Elon’s site to the dogs (or the doge).

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