Ellen Fishbein 📖🌤️

Why we’re publishing ‘Memes Make Millions’

I’m 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

Why we published ‘Breakfast With Pops’

I 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 here’s a personal memo on Altamira’s second book: https://notes.ellenrhymes.com/breakfast

The vibe for tonight

I asked @ungated.life “🔫 to your head give me 10 words that describe what bluesky should be” & 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

Here’s one screenshot from my (hundreds of pages of) notes about the vision for Altamira.studio. I see a new category of publishing emerging — something in the middle ground, *between* the very slow, high-overhead Legacy Press and instantaneous, infinitely scalable digital media.

it’s like, everyone forgot that we can just… use words to tell people what we need to tell them.

OMG me too, i never realized it until you put it this way.

i am ideologically opposed to A/B testing

one of the best!

A handful of people really appreciated this paragraph. It took 5 minutes to write it, but also 15 years.

Who should I follow here who’s involved in analog publishing?

who’s in “the rationalist crowd”? I’m a huge rationalist!

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usually sewing increases the production price 3-5x versus glue.

Shakespeare the Poet-preneur

Dan, you’ll always be an entrepreneur-writer

so will I

& so was Shakespeare 😎👇

https://notes.ellenrhymes.com/poet-preneur

you are the one and only bluesky sherpa

hmm. my first day on bluesky made me think of this poem “📬 to Twitter” (2017)

Disrupting Publishing in 700 Words

for anyone who might be a new friend, here’s what i’m doing with my life right now

https://notes.ellenrhymes.com/disrupting-publishing

ugh for real? yikes.

feels like what’s happening here is proof that TPOT was/is REAL! 😇

Oh my god everyone is coming over here

this is great

what is this?

team, 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