"You fall into social comparison traps, you doom scroll, you might even ‘hate follow’. And if you’re on the creation side of it, you are constantly measuring your worth against your numbers and trying to ‘play the game’. Substack, on the contrary, allows for more nourishment. You can slow down and properly digest something that entertains you, engages you, or offers you a different way of thinking. On the writer's side of it, I’ve never come away from a writing session without feeling utterly satisfied, and that’s before I’ve even hit ‘send’. "