# Chris Best

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Substack wants you to have fun and make money

Hi all, Last week was a whirlwind. I went to my college reunion at RISD reunion and Substack’s first media summit. No surprise, but I had notes. Somehow, this reunion turned into a conversation about understanding your differentiation. And then delivering on said differentiation. But the meat of th…

Ep. 136: ⁠How Jasmine Jones Built a Champion Mindset: Resilience & Discipline

Send us Fan Mail Jasmine Jones is an Airman in the United States Air Force, a High-Performance Athlete with Team USA Bobsled, Mid-American Conference Most Outstanding Track Performer, First Team College All-American, Bobsleigh Bronze Medalist in the 2026 Winter Olympics (which ended EMU’s 42-year d…

Substack co-founder Chris Best on AI slop, detection, and what still counts as thinking.

Over the weekend, I watched Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. Afterward I opened X and found people arguing about the story all over again—where our stories come from, why we keep retelling them, and how this one still connects people across centuries. The story has always been personal for me. I gr…

AI Detection Can't Measure Meaning: What It Actually Sees

I sit down with Substack co-founder and CEO Chris Best for a wide-ranging conversation about AI slop, what it does to the public square, and how writers can use powerful tools without outsourcing their judgment. We discuss Pangram's finding that roughly 40% of long-form writing on LinkedIn was full…

Slow Takes Episode 20

Substack starts detecting AI On 21 July, Substack switched on a Pangram-built tool that scans anything over 100 words and labels it human, AI-assisted or AI-generated. CEO Chris Best calls the problem ‘Claudefishing’. My research is in AI detection and it does not work: it flags the formal, structu…

Substack CEO on the platform’s new AI detector

Substack, the platform popular for online newsletters, recently launched an artificial intelligence detection feature powered by Pangram. The detector allows users to scan text and get an estimate for how much of it was likely written by AI. But some creators are concerned about the tool’s accurac…

Substack CEO on the platform’s new AI detector

Substack, the platform popular for online newsletters, recently launched an artificial intelligence detection feature powered by Pangram. The detector allows users to scan text and get an estimate for how much of it was likely written by AI. But some creators are concerned about the tool’s accurac…

#1855 - Chris Best

Chris Best is a tech entrepreneur, CEO of Substack and one of its co-founders. www.substack.com

My chat with Substack CEO Chris Best

Earlier today, Substack CEO Chris Best and I chatted via in-app live video. We discussed why I started Sources and the current state of tech media. Hope you enjoy!

Episode 285: What Does the Bible Say About Confession?

Confession is one of those Christian practices that many believers struggle to understand. We know 1 John 1:9: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.” But James 5:16 goes further: “Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.…