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  <title>Niche of One — The River</title>
  <subtitle>Everything the network published lately. Newest first, no algorithm.</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-11-10T19:59:17.803Z</updated>
  <entry>
    <title>Refusing to Learn AI Is a Luxury Your Competitors Hope You Can Afford.</title>
    <link href="https://nicheof001.medium.com/refusing-to-learn-ai-is-a-luxury-your-competitors-hope-you-can-afford-95e647b35be2?source=rss-7bdd4f78d816------2"/>
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    <updated>2026-11-10T15:22:03.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>J.D. Forrest on Medium</name></author>
    <summary>The loudest people in my feed right now are the ones announcing they will never touch AI. They wear it like a badge. Real writers don’t… Continue reading on Medium »</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>You Don’t Own Your Audience. You’re Renting It.</title>
    <link href="https://nicheof001.medium.com/you-dont-own-your-audience-you-re-renting-it-007f61d02f3e?source=rss-7bdd4f78d816------2"/>
    <id>https://nicheof001.medium.com/you-dont-own-your-audience-you-re-renting-it-007f61d02f3e?source=rss-7bdd4f78d816------2</id>
    <updated>2026-11-10T03:41:41.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>J.D. Forrest on Medium</name></author>
    <summary>Most creators are building a business on land they can be evicted from, and they don’t find out until the eviction notice shows up dressed… Continue reading on Medium »</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>The Roadside Places Nobody Plans Around Are Going Away</title>
    <link href="https://nicheof.one/feed/disappearing-rest-stops-motel-land-roadside-places-worth-noticing/"/>
    <id>https://nicheof.one/feed/disappearing-rest-stops-motel-land-roadside-places-worth-noticing/</id>
    <updated>2026-11-07T06:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Niche of One</name></author>
    <summary>TL;DR: Rest stops and motels are the parts of America built for people in transit, and both are getting bulldozed or changing jobs on us. Two writers, six years apart, went and looked. Stop at one while it still has a roof. Some buildings exist so you never have to think about th</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Computer Stuff</title>
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    <updated>2026-11-06T16:29:47.085Z</updated>
    <author><name>Thomas Icom - &quot;Ticom&quot;</name></author>
    <summary></summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>What Does a Big Institution Do to the People Inside It?</title>
    <link href="https://nicheof.one/feed/institutional-damage-people-inside-big-institutions/"/>
    <id>https://nicheof.one/feed/institutional-damage-people-inside-big-institutions/</id>
    <updated>2026-11-06T06:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Niche of One</name></author>
    <summary>TL;DR: A retired Army lieutenant colonel argues that the worst damage to an institution is what happens to trust when the rules for getting ahead change. You can see the same thing at any big employer, and you can protect yourself without waiting for it to get fixed. Matthew Robi</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Owning Your Email List Instead of Renting It: What It Costs and the Smallest Version Worth Doing</title>
    <link href="https://nicheof.one/feed/own-your-email-list-instead-of-renting-it/"/>
    <id>https://nicheof.one/feed/own-your-email-list-instead-of-renting-it/</id>
    <updated>2026-11-05T06:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Niche of One</name></author>
    <summary>TL;DR: Your list is the one asset a platform can’t repossess, but only if you hold a copy you can mail from. You don’t have to own the whole stack. You do have to own the export and the sending address. A post on Engineered.at summarizes Sam Patterson’s switch from Substack to Li</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>What to Post Instead of Inspirational Quotes (and Why They Fail)</title>
    <link href="https://nicheof.one/feed/what-to-post-instead-of-inspirational-quotes/"/>
    <id>https://nicheof.one/feed/what-to-post-instead-of-inspirational-quotes/</id>
    <updated>2026-11-01T06:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Niche of One</name></author>
    <summary>TL;DR: A quote card tells people you had nothing of your own to post that day. Post a failure, a template, a real number, or an honest review of a tool you use, and make every post survive four questions before it goes out. “The game is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourse</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>How to Use AI Tools Without Betting Your Creative Business on One Company</title>
    <link href="https://nicheof.one/feed/use-ai-without-depending-on-it-independent-creators/"/>
    <id>https://nicheof.one/feed/use-ai-without-depending-on-it-independent-creators/</id>
    <updated>2026-11-01T06:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Niche of One</name></author>
    <summary>TL;DR: The AI fight has three camps, and none of them is working for you. Use the tools for grunt work, keep the real work yours, and build so no single company can switch you off. Everybody yelling about AI right now is selling something. The big companies sell licensing deals a</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Strange Signals</title>
    <link href="https://ticom.nicheof.one/p/strange-signals"/>
    <id>https://ticom.nicheof.one/p/strange-signals</id>
    <updated>2026-10-28T21:50:41.197Z</updated>
    <author><name>Thomas Icom - &quot;Ticom&quot;</name></author>
    <summary></summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>At the Day Job - Automating Boring Stuff</title>
    <link href="https://ticom.nicheof.one/p/meanwhile-at-the-day-job-automating-boring-stuff"/>
    <id>https://ticom.nicheof.one/p/meanwhile-at-the-day-job-automating-boring-stuff</id>
    <updated>2026-10-27T13:34:12.265Z</updated>
    <author><name>Thomas Icom - &quot;Ticom&quot;</name></author>
    <summary></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Collectors and Preppers in Patterson - An After-Action Report</title>
    <link href="https://ticom.nicheof.one/p/collectors-and-preppers-in-patterson-an-after-action-report"/>
    <id>https://ticom.nicheof.one/p/collectors-and-preppers-in-patterson-an-after-action-report</id>
    <updated>2026-10-19T00:15:49.279Z</updated>
    <author><name>Thomas Icom - &quot;Ticom&quot;</name></author>
    <summary></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Tomorrow</title>
    <link href="https://ticom.nicheof.one/p/tomorrow"/>
    <id>https://ticom.nicheof.one/p/tomorrow</id>
    <updated>2026-10-16T13:40:30.388Z</updated>
    <author><name>Thomas Icom - &quot;Ticom&quot;</name></author>
    <summary></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>How I Use AI to Write Without It Eating My Voice</title>
    <link href="https://medium.com/creator-ops/how-i-use-ai-to-write-without-it-eating-my-voice-802b79716680?source=rss-7bdd4f78d816------2"/>
    <id>https://medium.com/creator-ops/how-i-use-ai-to-write-without-it-eating-my-voice-802b79716680?source=rss-7bdd4f78d816------2</id>
    <updated>2026-06-21T08:00:12.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>J.D. Forrest on Medium</name></author>
    <summary>The tool is not as important as the user. Continue reading on Creator Ops »</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Creator Ops Submission Guidelines</title>
    <link href="https://medium.com/creator-ops/creator-ops-submission-guidelines-70b430ebf52b?source=rss-7bdd4f78d816------2"/>
    <id>https://medium.com/creator-ops/creator-ops-submission-guidelines-70b430ebf52b?source=rss-7bdd4f78d816------2</id>
    <updated>2026-05-12T05:00:06.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>J.D. Forrest on Medium</name></author>
    <summary></summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Some Money Belongs on the Table</title>
    <link href="https://medium.com/creator-ops/some-money-belongs-on-the-table-892da7e6f20b?source=rss-7bdd4f78d816------2"/>
    <id>https://medium.com/creator-ops/some-money-belongs-on-the-table-892da7e6f20b?source=rss-7bdd4f78d816------2</id>
    <updated>2026-05-07T02:09:59.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>J.D. Forrest on Medium</name></author>
    <summary>The two failure modes of creator pricing, and the narrow road that runs between them. Continue reading on Creator Ops »</summary>
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