The answer to this is simple: say what you mean. This will take, to some degree, courage. It may even take, I hesitate to say, some sacrifice. When I suggest this course of action to people, they inevitably say, “But it will cost me audience!” or “But what if I lose followers!” or “What if they demonetize me!” Okay, what if they do? What if they do.

Anil Dash is on the money with this one. God, I cannot stand "unalive" and "grape" and all these fucking childish neologisms and I will call you out on using them if I see you using them! Talk like a fucking adult!

And a reminder: Substack is not an email newsletter, and a Spotify show is not a podcast — they’ll be unaliving your distribution any day now.

And he's also right about this!!