In this week’s episode of the Niche Pursuits podcast, Nina Clapperton and I discuss HCU, AI Insights, and how content businesses can still thrive after traffic-first blogging declines. Nina shares that she continues to generate revenue through a more targeted…
A published research PNAS It found that the readers showed that it was created by artificial intelligence personal introductions they couldn’t reliably tell which was which – GPT-3 performs at or near chance when presented with output. A separate set…
If you watch Suits, you’ll know that Pearson Hardman only hires from Harvard. However,even on the show, they bend that rule for a few prominent legal minds. Especially like acceptance rateslower, and admissions seem more like a numbers game than…
A significant number of people navigate adulthood with complicated parental relationships quietly going on in the background. They have jobs, relationships, entire lives that appear to be fully functional from the outside. And yet, somewhere beneath it all, there is…
At the height of the WordPress-WP Engine controversy in late 2024 and early 2025, coverage was relentless. Every new lawsuit, every account deactivation, every public statement by Matt Mullenweg has created another wave of comments. Tech journalists, WordPress developers, bloggers,…
For many people, there comes a point when something good happens and the first instinct is not to call the parent. Promotion. A positive test result. Something that takes a long time to work. In the half-second between something good…
Most mornings in our place go by the same rhythm. We wake up, make breakfast at the kitchen island, then my daughter, our stroller, and I drive my husband to work. This takes maybe fifteen minutes. We don’t talk about…
There’s an example well-known in certain corners of independent publishing: the blogger whose bio doesn’t just appear on the About page, but is touched on in the introductory paragraph of every post. A writer who leads by how many years…
If you’re still thinking of Substack as a newsletter platform with a podcast tab attached, you’re looking at a product that no longer exists. Over the past eighteen months, Substack has developed video publishing, local live streaming, an embedded recording…
Most people learn to cope. This is not a small thing. Learning to move on, to keep difficult situations at bay, to find some kind of forward movement regardless of what’s going on inside—that’s something almost every adult does in…
