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Li Jin
Personal blog · li.substack.comeconomicsbusiness
Li Jin writes Li's Newsletter, a personal blog at li.substack.com about economics and business. Since 2020, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Writing about consumer technology and society. Click to read Li's Newsletter, by Li Jin, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-12-17
- Unbundling Work from Employment3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-07-29
- The creator economy is in crisis. Now let’s fix it2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-10
- How the Passion Economy will disrupt media, education2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-14
- The Web3 Renaissance: A Golden Age for Content2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-20
- The Case for Universal Creative Income2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-29
What Hacker News says?
I really enjoyed reading this article. One key takeaway for me was how its in the interest of companies like Substack to initially have a lot of high profile creators defect from their motherships (like a lot of journalists have recently done) and then eventually decrease reliance on the superstars so that Substack's value doesnt immediately decrease once these superstars leave. Very related to this article is this…
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on “Why Content Is King”Submitted Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy as a story · 168 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unbundling Work from Employment as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple Is Holding Back the Creator Economy as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Uber and Instacart don’t represent Silicon Valley. Why vote “No” on Prop 22 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The New Creator Playbook: Jumpstarting Communities Through Tokens as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Web3 Renaissance: A Golden Age for Content as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unbundling Work from Employment as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Psychological Attachment – Not Just Ownership – Into Web3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fans Are the New Creators as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Theory of Justice for Web3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Web3 Renaissance: A Golden Age for Content as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case for Universal Creative Income as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The creator economy is in crisis. Now let’s fix it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case for Universal Creative Income as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unbundling Work from Employment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Passion Economy will disrupt media, education as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tale of Tough Cities as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How coronavirus is shifting consumer behavior and attitudes in China as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Progressive Decentralization for Media as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Standards Innovation Paradox as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Ownership Economy 2022 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Legitimacy Lost as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The creator economy is in crisis. Now let’s fix it as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building the middle class for the creator economy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An open letter about community software as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Li Jin: Disruption by the Passion Economy as a story · 1 points
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