but good writing isn't worth good money because you can get ok copy free from people who do it for the attention. the magazine business was cool but what made i

but good writing isn't worth good money because you can get ok copy free from people who do it for the attention. the magazine business was cool but what made it cool was it was powerful. It isn't now. business wise, the closest analogy today is podcasts, not because of writing, but they're the curators of the discourse. now Fridman and Rogan are each a one man Atlantic or Harper's, providing the platform for ideas and selling attention and wielding influence on it. we don't need journalists to tell us stories when the people doing the things can just tell their story themselves. we've lost some of the insight that came from writing as a craft and those insights formed the previous culture and identity, but we get these direct now. maybe writing polarizes, where only writers who can do fiction well can add any value or insight into anything real.