About

confidence games is an independent publication launched three days ago. I've been thinking about the ways in which Substack is fucking up — and is perhaps doomed to keep fucking up — for years now, and finally decided to write down some of those thoughts.

WHO I AM

don't be nebby

THE PAID TIERS ARE A JOKE

I cannot stress this enough. I am putting my nonsense on the internet for free because I want to and can afford to. If you sign up for a paid tier, please note that I am not committing to any kind of regular schedule and it is entirely possible that you will never receive any "subscriber-exclusive content".

Start your own thing

Out of curiosity, I timed how long it took me to get set up with a self-hosted Ghost installation on DigitalOcean, with a domain name that I already owned: about four hours, start to finish, including troubleshooting a configuration problem that meant Mailgun was unable to send transactional emails to readers.