"We have to stand for sanity." An interview with Chris Best, founder of Substack

diagnosing our "attention-monster social media," fighting back against our would-be censors, strategy for success, and doubling-down on free speech

Bonus piece this week. I had the incredible pleasure of interviewing Chris Best, the co-founder and CEO of Substack. Chris is a product nerd and builder of things presently working on Substack, a tool for writers to go independent, publish their work to email on the web, and make money from subscriptions. Their big ambitious goal: build an alternate med…