Iโm excited to share that @iamjasonlevin.bsky.social is publishing with Altamira! Would love for you all to read my memo on this & get your pre-order in: https://notes.ellenrhymes.com/M3
29.04.2023 17:50 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@ellen.bsky.social
Laying the foundation for a new kind of publishing company at http://altamira.studio.
Iโm excited to share that @iamjasonlevin.bsky.social is publishing with Altamira! Would love for you all to read my memo on this & get your pre-order in: https://notes.ellenrhymes.com/M3
29.04.2023 17:50 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I think publishers should write memos describing why they allocate their resources toward each publication, just like VCs write memos about why they deploy capital toward each company in their portfolio. So hereโs a personal memo on Altamiraโs second book: https://notes.ellenrhymes.com/breakfast
28.04.2023 23:27 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The vibe for tonight
24.04.2023 01:26 โ ๐ 67 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 1I asked @ungated.life โ๐ซ to your head give me 10 words that describe what bluesky should beโ & did the same myself. results:
magical
expansive
customizable
safe
elemental
human
fun
fractal
nourishing
vibey
intimate
conversational
honest
spontaneous
personal
relaxed
liberating
no-bullshit
creative
Hereโs one screenshot from my (hundreds of pages of) notes about the vision for Altamira.studio. I see a new category of publishing emerging โ something in the middle ground, *between* the very slow, high-overhead Legacy Press and instantaneous, infinitely scalable digital media.
15.04.2023 04:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0itโs like, everyone forgot that we can justโฆ use words to tell people what we need to tell them.
14.04.2023 18:05 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0OMG me too, i never realized it until you put it this way.
14.04.2023 18:01 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0i am ideologically opposed to A/B testing
14.04.2023 17:23 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0one of the best!
14.04.2023 17:59 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A handful of people really appreciated this paragraph. It took 5 minutes to write it, but also 15 years.
14.04.2023 07:32 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Who should I follow here whoโs involved in analog publishing?
13.04.2023 19:34 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0whoโs in โthe rationalist crowdโ? Iโm a huge rationalist!
13.04.2023 00:11 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐๐ฅ๏ธ
13 people have expressed interest in a townhall discussion on the future of publishing โ if you would be interested in joining, please sign up:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1k-JKEDLOUejro3otUJTscjfsmuEGNMrMhRGjlmJ5D9g/viewform
if there was ever a time for each of us to be the change we wanna see on social media, it's right now ๐ฑโจ
10.04.2023 21:45 โ ๐ 39 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1usually sewing increases the production price 3-5x versus glue.
10.04.2023 23:06 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Dan, youโll always be an entrepreneur-writer
so will I
& so was Shakespeare ๐๐
https://notes.ellenrhymes.com/poet-preneur
you are the one and only bluesky sherpa
10.04.2023 17:19 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0hmm. my first day on bluesky made me think of this poem โ๐ฌ to Twitterโ (2017)
10.04.2023 03:49 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0for anyone who might be a new friend, hereโs what iโm doing with my life right now
https://notes.ellenrhymes.com/disrupting-publishing
ugh for real? yikes.
09.04.2023 22:37 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0feels like whatโs happening here is proof that TPOT was/is REAL! ๐
09.04.2023 22:06 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Oh my god everyone is coming over here
this is great
what is this?
09.04.2023 22:00 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0team, how do we make this place one where people hangout around the fire and make friends and prevent it becoming an outcome-orientated, exploitative, marketing-driven cesspool
09.04.2023 19:08 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1