Today on The Daily Whatever Show, we went deep on Substack’s slow creep toward walled-garden territory — and why you should download your subscriber list today, not later.
Lawrence Winnerman also had personal news: his second divorce is official. He’s accepting applications for the next future ex-Mr. Winnerman.
From there, we covered a lot of ground: We talked about the No Kings general strike on May 1. We discussed Lawrence’s latest essay Stop Calling Them Billionaires. Start Calling Them Predators (and why language matters). Then the hour closed on Dana’s latest I Write Out Loud essay, Dating the “Test and Apologize” Type — the coffee date, the raunchy song from The Dare, and whether that first red flag predicted everything that followed.
(Lawrence thinks it did.)
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