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I had a feeling you needed this peaceful beauty in your life today. I know I did…
How life starts to feel when your screen time is under 2 hours a day
The Loneliness No One Talks About
No one warns you about the loneliness that comes with growing.
The silence when old friendships stop fitting, but new ones haven’t formed.
The ache of outgrowing places, conversations, even versions of yourself.
Growth is beautiful, but it can also be isolating.
Keep growing anyway. You’ll find your kindred spirits.
You made it, you own it
You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.
A PERSONAL SHARE
I have one subscriber who reads a single chapter of my book every week, than emails me every Sunday morning with his feedback.
He's 75, and has no idea how to use the Substack app. He will never see this note.
It makes my entire week when I get his email. He is a wonderful soul, funny and lovely, and he keeps me moving forward.
How do I even repay that?
Great discussions
Join the most interesting and insightful discussions.
Last Feb I casually posted this neck stretch on Instagram (that I thought everyone knew 🤷♀️) and it blew up in a way I couldn’t imagine. It’s now been viewed over 8 million times 🫣😬🤣 and has brought so many wonderful people into my world.
So give it a go, it’s a pretty lovely stretch. (Though it’s not actually magic, it’s just an up…
There’s a lengthy discourse about why so few conservatives are in the academy. It’s a multi-causal explanation, to be sure. But if it takes me, a political scientist, all of 10 minutes of reading to falsify the claims of a history Ph.D. who is also the president of the Heritage Foundation, then maybe one cause is that MAGA conservatives are really, really dumb?
