What feels new on Substack isn’t just that people read together, but that they read in public while still thinking privately. It creates a shared intellectual atmosphere without dissolving the solitude that serious reading requires. That tension between solitude and togetherness might be exactly where a quiet revival of deep reading can happen.
I do think we're doing something special here guys.
I love this framing, especially the idea that the “solve” has to be domestic and relational before it is institutional. What strikes me is that reading isn’t just a habit to be modeled, but a way of being in the world that children absorb by proximity: slowness, attention, tolerance for difficulty, and pleasure in lingering with somethin…
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