Substack Buzzword Bingo
Keeping up on Substack
As a Medium refugee, I’m still not sure if Substack is for me. It takes a while to tune into a new culture, the in-jokes, and the in-crowd.
Today I was listening to a “Substack Live”, a concept I am still getting my head around after the very limited media available on Medium.
It was by a solopreneur influencer, or something like that. I couldn’t switch off the voice in my head asking why she didn’t have a proper job, but then I am a bad person, as you may have worked out by now.
Lovely lady, friendly and very enthusiastic. The thing was, she seemed to talk at 200 miles an hour, as though she had consumed ten cups of coffee, half a dozen Red Bull, and several lines of Colombian marching powder beforehand. I know I am not the sharpest tool in the box, but what came out was a bit overwhelming to a bear with little brain like me.
The speaker managed to get the word “amazing” into the same sentence five times.
If the speed of delivery was not bad enough, the content was super-saturated with buzzwords. There were brands, niches, hero posts, podcasts, sales funnels, DMs (which were a brand of shoes when I grew up), origin stories, rapport with readers, imposter syndrome, and diamond membership, which I guess is not intended for cheapskates and freeloaders like me, the NIMs (Newly Impoverished of Medium).
It was breathtaking: the speaker managed to get the word “amazing” into the same sentence five times, and truly it was.
I needed a lie-down from exhaustion after listening to this for ten minutes, which may not be ideal if I want to be a groundbreaking solopreneur influencer in this Brave New World.
So still not sure about this Substack thing. I may settle for “Bargain Hunt” and games of Scrabble, which seem safer.
As always, thank you for reading.
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We're all NIMs... brilliant! 👏
Haha you are welcome. I mostly read on substack, it's better that way