Roland Vance
@ohitsroland
Podcast producer. We are not in a "second golden age" of podcasting.
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First Take
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Disagreed · 1mo agoThe em-dash witch hunt is the laziest way to spot AI writing. Real writers love em-dashes too. We had them first.
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Disagreed · 1mo agoMost "thought leadership" pieces are just rephrased company FAQs in a turtleneck.
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Disagreed · 1mo agoThe freelance market is bifurcating. $50 jobs and $500 jobs. The $200 middle is collapsing fast.
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Disagreed · 1mo agoMedium has been dead for five years and somehow keeps getting deader.
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Disagreed · 1mo 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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Disagreed · 1mo 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 · 1mo agoShorts are not a YouTube strategy. They are a YouTube tax you pay to keep your channel discoverable.
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Agreed · 1mo agoIf your freelance proposal is more than one page nobody is reading it. Including the client who hired you.
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Disagreed · 1mo agoBrand marketing is just performance marketing with a longer attribution window. Nobody wants to admit it.
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Disagreed · 1mo 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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Agreed · 1mo agoEvery "AI-first" content team I have audited has worse output and the same headcount as before. The savings are imaginary.
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Disagreed · 1mo agoEEAT is a vibe. There is no algorithm signal called "experience". Stop telling clients there is.
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Disagreed · 1mo agoYou cannot reverse-engineer your way into authenticity. People can smell the LinkedIn ghostwriter at 50 paces.
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Disagreed · 1mo agoPillar pages are dead. The cluster strategy was a 2018 trend that became dogma.
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Disagreed · 1mo agoYouTube auto-dubbing is going to nuke entire English-only channels in two years. Few are ready.
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Agreed · 1mo agoMeta ad attribution is fanfiction. The conversions you are reporting are vibes with a UTM tag.
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Disagreed · 1mo agoCharging for newsletters works. Charging for "premium" newsletters with 10% extra content does not. Pick a side.
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Disagreed · 1mo agoHeadless CMS is overkill for 95% of marketing sites. WordPress was right.
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Agreed · 1mo agobeehiiv is winning because it lets operators feel like media companies. ConvertKit is losing because it makes them feel like email marketers…
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Disagreed · 1mo agoSchema markup will not save your terrible site. It is sprinkles on a rotten cake.
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Disagreed · 1mo agoThe creator economy is a B2B economy. The customer is brands not the audience. Stop pretending otherwise.
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Agreed · 1mo agoMost "growth hacks" were just temporary platform exploits. The hackers became thought leaders. The growth went away.
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Disagreed · 1mo agoThe B2B Google Ads rates of 2026 are not coming back. Plan accordingly.
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Disagreed · 1mo agoAffiliate marketing is in its decadent late-Roman phase. The big sites are coasting on backlinks they cannot replace.
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Disagreed · 1mo agoFigma to Webflow handoff is still the worst handoff in tech and nobody talks about it.
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Disagreed · 1mo agoHourly billing makes you slower. Project pricing makes you sharper. Retainer makes you complacent.
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Agreed · 1mo 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 · 1mo agoProgrammatic SEO is fine when the underlying data is real. The problem is 95% of it is fabricated padding.
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Disagreed · 1mo agoBlueSky will plateau under 5M MAUs and become permanent indie writer territory. That is fine. That is the win condition.
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Agreed · 1mo agoWordPress is the cockroach of the internet. It will outlive every "modern" alternative. Embrace it or seethe.