From78

I just made an influences page here (you can see it at the top of the site in the navigation bar). I plan to keep adding to this as I think about who and what have influenced me.

However, when I look at it now, I notice something I think is significant that helps me not be overly focused on making things perfect: Most of the stuff the people on this list make isn’t super polished/overly produced.

• Chris Arnade’s Substack is very well written, but he keeps it very simple.
• Patti Smith’s Substack has videos she makes with a stock webcam on her computer.
• Nick Cave’s Red Hand Files are simple blog posts.
• Rob Bell’s podcast has no intro music and he leaves in the hums and ahh, and repetitive things he says.
• Marc Weidenbaum’s Disquiet website is an example of a simple blog that has been around for a very long time.

Of course, there are some things on this list that do have a rather high production value to them, such as Bella Freud’s videos, and Ezra Klein’s podcast, but these things constitute the minority rather than the majority of things on this list.