Short circuiting the Substack burnout cycle

It seems like writers have a six-month burn rate where they come in excited, start to build, grind, and burn out. How do we live better lives in the meat grinder of capitalism?

Hi friends,

It seems like the Substack backlash is growing every day. @Jane Friedman has an excellent take about the good and the bad of Substack that’s worth reading.

This isn’t the first, last, or even latest, but it does speak to something I’ve seen on Substack a lot; the burnout cycle. While this graphic says The High-Achiever Burnout Cycle, it migh…