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Daniel Stone
Personal blog · danielstone.substack.combusinesseconomicswriting
Daniel Stone's personal blog at danielstone.substack.com covers business, economics and writing. Since 2022, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Money Stuff is Linear-ish”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on media business models after The Economist, covering subscriptions, affiliate revenue, podcasts and wealthy patrons. The one comment does not discuss the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Occasional writing mostly about, but by no means limited to, media finances and media statistics.
Most-linked posts?
- Money Stuff is Linear-ish3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-06
What Hacker News says?
What are your options to make yourself a going concern as a media company in 2022? Become a tech company, like the NY Times (separate subscriptions for cooking & games, affiliate via Wirecutter, get into podcasts, newsletters, etc.) - they've kind of Buzzfeed-ified themselves. Or get a rich patron. The latter has worked for decades for money-losing conservative journals. (For interesting anecdata about one of them,…
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on “Ask HN: Alternatives to The Economist Magazine?”Submitted Money Stuff is Linear-ish as a story · 182 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is it the “New York Review of Each Other’s Books”? as a story · 131 points
HN discussionSubmitted Money Stuff is Linear-ish as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Big Byline: A look at lengthening byline credits at the New York Times as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Harvard-Led Citation Cartel Rakes in Millions from Bluebook Manual Monopoly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Matt Levine Newsletter Money Stuff Is Linear-Ish as a story · 2 points
HN discussion