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MKBHDs For Everything – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

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Anniversaries are strange: no one but those involved have any reason to even know they exist, which makes them easy to skip; for example, last year I mostly ignored the 10 year anniversary of starting Stratechery because I was more eager to write about ChatGPT Getting a Computer. That leaves today, April 16, as my last chance to mark a tin anniversary: ten years ago Stratechery added a subscription option, making this my full-time job. It was, for the record, a miserable day: I had a convoluted plan to offer different site experiences for subscribers and non-subscribers: the former would receive daily linked-list updates (a la Daring Fireball) while the latter would still have access to longer-form Articles; I scrapped the concept two days later in favor of simply sending subscribers a daily email, and so the paid newsletter model was born. That accident of history ended up being why this anniversary is actually more meaningful to me: while I am most well-known for Stratechery, I am eq

MKBHDs For Everything – Stratechery by Ben Thompson Skip to content MKBHDs For Everything Tuesday, April 16, 2024 This Article is available as a video essay on YouTube Anniversaries are strange: no one but those involved have any reason to even know they exist, which makes them easy to skip; for example, last year I mostly ignored the 10 year anniversary of starting Stratechery because I was more eager to write about ChatGPT Getting a Computer . That leaves today, April 16, as my last chance to mark a tin anniversary: ten years ago Stratechery added a subscription option , making this my

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