Interviews & Commentary

Interviews & Commentary features conversations, perspectives, and opinion pieces related to blogging and digital publishing. It highlights the voices behind the work, including bloggers, writers, editors, and industry participants.

The goal is thoughtful commentary that reflects the community and the evolving realities of publishing on the web.

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

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

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

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