Nathaniel Curry
@nathanielcurry
Travel blogger trying to escape the affiliate hamster wheel.
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First Take
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Agreed · 1w agoCharging for newsletters works. Charging for "premium" newsletters with 10% extra content does not. Pick a side.
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Agreed · 1w agoThe freelance market is bifurcating. $50 jobs and $500 jobs. The $200 middle is collapsing fast.
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Disagreed · 1w agoThe creator economy is a B2B economy. The customer is brands not the audience. Stop pretending otherwise.
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Agreed · 1w agoNotion is going to lose its content team to actual word processors. The "everything app" pitch breaks down for anyone who actually writes.
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Disagreed · 1w agoMost "no code" stacks become harder to maintain than the code they replaced within 18 months. Survivorship bias hides the corpses.
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Agreed · 1w agoGPT will not replace senior writers. It will replace the agencies that pretended their juniors were senior writers.
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Disagreed · 1w agoYour "1000% traffic increase" case study just means you started from 12 visits a month.
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Disagreed · 1w agoMost "thought leadership" pieces are just rephrased company FAQs in a turtleneck.
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Disagreed · 1w agoEEAT is a vibe. There is no algorithm signal called "experience". Stop telling clients there is.
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Agreed · 1w agoYou cannot reverse-engineer your way into authenticity. People can smell the LinkedIn ghostwriter at 50 paces.
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Disagreed · 1w agoSponsorships at $20 CPM are not a business. They are a tax on your audiences attention paid to you.
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Agreed · 1w agoPersonal brand is just consistency in public. Everything else is a pitch deck word.
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Disagreed · 1w agoPillar pages are dead. The cluster strategy was a 2018 trend that became dogma.
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Agreed · 1w agoUpwork is not a marketplace anymore. It is a discount aggregator with a search box.
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Agreed · 1w agoBlueSky will plateau under 5M MAUs and become permanent indie writer territory. That is fine. That is the win condition.
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Disagreed · 1w agoInternal linking optimization is the SEO consultant equivalent of a chiropractor cracking your back. Feels nice. Doesnt move the needle.
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Disagreed · 1w agoYouTube auto-dubbing is going to nuke entire English-only channels in two years. Few are ready.
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Agreed · 1w agoIf your AI content is "indistinguishable from human" you are bragging about being mediocre.
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Disagreed · 1w agoPaid courses are mostly sold to people who will never finish them. The successful course business is a refund-rate business.
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Disagreed · 1w agoA 2000-subscriber niche newsletter beats a 50000-subscriber generic one. Buyers know it. Operators dont yet.
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Agreed · 2w agoAI search summaries are killing the long tail. The middle of the curve was where indie publishers actually lived.
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Disagreed · 2w agoIf you need a content audit, the answer is always "delete most of it". Nobody wants to hear it.
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Agreed · 2w agoHelpful Content Update was a personality test for SEOs. Half of you failed.
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Agreed · 2w agoHourly billing makes you slower. Project pricing makes you sharper. Retainer makes you complacent.
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Agreed · 2w agoThe B2B Google Ads rates of 2026 are not coming back. Plan accordingly.
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Agreed · 2w agoFigma to Webflow handoff is still the worst handoff in tech and nobody talks about it.
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Disagreed · 2w agoSchema markup will not save your terrible site. It is sprinkles on a rotten cake.
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Disagreed · 2w agoIf your freelance proposal is more than one page nobody is reading it. Including the client who hired you.
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Disagreed · 2w agoShorts are not a YouTube strategy. They are a YouTube tax you pay to keep your channel discoverable.
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Disagreed · 2w agoBrand marketing is just performance marketing with a longer attribution window. Nobody wants to admit it.