Jul 14, 2026 · 21 min · 10 segments
*“There are many Substacks about Substack. This one is *the OG*.”* —Gregg Easterbrook This week: **Substacks making news, newsletter dating, Substack in Japan, why you don’t have to go viral on…
Sarah FayHost
And then, of course, I do something having to do with what's really important and any type of system that I've come up with.

that's working across my clients, across Premier members, really working and something that's changed as well.

The point is these dispatches are a way for me to share with you what's happening on Substack and also get you excited about being on Substack because sometimes we get so myopic and we're just thinking likes and subscribers and posts and this and notes and whatever.

And I talk about this in this post, but it's a total phenomenon and it is like nowhere else on the Internet and it will always be that way.

And we forget that and we forget that we're part of this moment in history and this moment in our culture where independent writers and creators have been given a space to to have power and make our own livings.

And then also just to give you the tidbits, the things that are coming up that I hear myself saying in my client sessions, that I hear myself saying in premier calls that I just know I want to share more widely too.


And then, of course, I do something having to do with what's really important and any type of system that I've come up with.

that's working across my clients, across Premier members, really working and something that's changed as well.

The point is these dispatches are a way for me to share with you what's happening on Substack and also get you excited about being on Substack because sometimes we get so myopic and we're just thinking likes and subscribers and posts and this and notes and whatever.

And I talk about this in this post, but it's a total phenomenon and it is like nowhere else on the Internet and it will always be that way.

And we forget that and we forget that we're part of this moment in history and this moment in our culture where independent writers and creators have been given a space to to have power and make our own livings.

And then also just to give you the tidbits, the things that are coming up that I hear myself saying in my client sessions, that I hear myself saying in premier calls that I just know I want to share more widely too.

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