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Some people only start to understand their own parents when they begin writing about them — not in therapy, not in conversation, but in the slow, careful work of putting it all into sentences

People who wrote letters in the 1960s and 1970s practiced a form of patience the internet has since decided is a character flaw

The psychology of the unsubscribe: what it actually means when someone leaves your list

Writing a column about your own life sounds indulgent. It’s actually tone of one of the hardest things you can do online

Publishers are leaving Substack for Ghost — and the reasons reveal something uncomfortable about what “owning your audience” actually means

I spent years thinking I was bad at conversation before I realized I was just bad at conversations that didn’t go anywhere

News in the Blogosphere

58% of Google searches end without a click. Here’s what that actually means if you run a blog

Yahoo’s blog search gambit and the quiet fracturing of Google’s discovery monopoly

WordPress quietly building a Windows Phone 7 app signals something bigger about platform allegiance

Why allowing social media at work quietly boosts the metrics that matter most

Blogging Tips & Guides

A Substack writer with 20,000 subscribers laid out her seven-step growth framework. Here’s what it reveals about how the platform actually works in 2026

Writers who go quiet for months aren’t blocked — they’re waiting for the distance that turns experience into something they can actually use

10 communication skills every blogger should hone

How to integrate your podcast with your blog content

The Ideas Room

People who reread what they wrote years ago aren’t being nostalgic — they’re checking whether the person who wrote that still exists

A diverse audience attentively engaging during a significant indoor event.

There’s a particular loneliness that comes from being the creator who notices everything in a room full of people who notice nothing, and most of us learned to stop mentioning it before we turned twenty

I asked 50 bloggers if they’re still making money in 2026. The answers were brutal

When Heidi Klum’s Father Sent a Blogger a Cease and Desist Over a URL — and What It Still Teaches Publishers About Trademark Risk