Danica Swanson on Warpcast

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https://paragraph.xyz

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Wanted to put this one together before Easter food craziness starts - I believe Paragraph is too silent and needs to clarify what they stand for. Thanks @reidtandy and @danicaswanson for inspiration throughout this week's convos here. Also, it's the opinion you didn't ask for @colin - but written with love for Paragraph! 😍 https://paragraph.com/@buildbetter/web3-wont-save-writers-paragraph-might

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"You don’t write on Paragraph to grow fast. You write here to write forever. To find your people. To own your work. To publish for the long game." Nailed it. Instant sell. That value prop is precisely what I've been hoping for ever since I first joined Paragraph. In fact I thought this was the direction they were headed at the time, and it's one of the reasons I was so excited when I first joined (Jan 2023). Writers who publish occasionally, or at least on a slower cadence than the Substack norm, have been ignored. I'd be delighted to see Paragraph nail this market. There's potential for compounding value there. Like many literary nerds I appreciate Stripe Press, so I was basically looking for the seeds of what might eventually become Paragraph Press -- a fully composable open publishing layer, with onchain proof of origin plus customizable monetization options only possible in crypto. (1/2)

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What you wrote about "human circles" (framed more like craft circles, salons, or campfires, and less like dull-sounding "forums") is on point too. The conversation around the published work can often be as important as the work itself. Writers need places to seed and nurture creative *scenes*, including: - affordances for preservation and re-discovery of evergreen work (quote collections, indexes, writer playlists, etc.) - ways to build loose ties with other overlapping scenes on their own terms We need nodes within a larger network of publishing projects: home-bases to consolidate, curate, and cross-link our work. Outstanding work, BFG. Lots more I could say in response to your piece, but I'll stop there for now. And thanks very much for the shout-out to my work! Might want to quote your testimonial for something I'm building... ;) (2/2)

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(P.S. Tried to collect your piece but I'm having wallet issues. Will have to try again later).

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