Ideas for Substack, plus prediction markets
The beginning of Backstage
It was Earth Day this week. Earth Day is personally important to me, for reasons I might talk about another time.
Once upon a time I used to send out a comic to people I knew every Earth Day. It was a lot of work so I haven’t done it for years, but here’s an excerpt from one of those old comics.
This week I started a new feature on Front Stage Exit: Backstage. Backstage will be roughly daily (Mon - Fri), with quick takes on topics in crypto, media, health and the news.
They won’t go out over email till Saturday, like today, when I run a roundup.
This is the part where the writer usually comes up with a grand statement about how this offering fits into the grander scheme of media or a needed bit of commentary in the broader market. I don’t have that. I just had this idea IDK.
The first two Backstages were not brief. They are product ideas for Substack proper that I’ve been sitting on for a while. Fridays is brief, though, and it’s about the news that an actu…