Algorithms Substack

A sharp, humorous, and deeply analytical look inside Substack’s “Bestseller” mechanics — from velocity and retention to anomaly detection — told from the perspective of an author repeatedly misclassified across categories. A must-read for anyone writing in Science, philosophy, or…

This text is part of the Substack series — observations on platform mechanics, recommendations, and how visibility forms through real contact. I found a hidden corner of Substack — a place I’d never opened — and realized that people had…

Premise.Three months. No prior audience, no boosts, no cross-platform favors, no “friends of friends.” Geography: Russia. Input: texts only. Output: 302 subscribers at the time of analysis. This is not a spectacular number; it is a clean number. Clean enough…

By: A person who realized email marketing isn’t spam if it’s clever 🫠 Introduction: Everyone Pretends There Are No Algorithms When you land on Substack, a blank white page gently winks and whispers: “This is your voice, your style, your…

substack philosophy, writing metrics, open rate myth, creative systems, conversion and meaning, attention economy, solitude writing, non-monetized content, digital minimalism, resistance to optimization A Letter to the Woman with a 40% Open Rate , I’ll be brief and exact. Would…

2.5 months ago, I had zero reach, no SEO, no strategy, and no idea how to “grow” anything.I had only texts.And silence. “I’ll forget the year, the day, the hour.I’ll lock myself away — alone, with a sheet of paper.Let…

Substack rewards movement — but it doesn’t measure what that movement costs the author. This part maps the difference between bridge participation and service participation, shows how engagement fragments interior time, and explains why visibility can rise while the work…