I think we are moving away from the era of social media and into an era of online micro-communities. More intentional, less chaos. Smaller, but more valuable. More boundaries, more containment.
We were never made to read the unhinged thoughts of hundreds of strangers each day, but we were made to gather around fires with groups and share our stories.
If you are a young man (or women) who feels like their life is going nowhere, this is the article for you! This may be the most important thing I’ve ever written.
I was browsing a bookstore a few years back when I randomly struck up a conversation with a woman. She asked what I did for a living. I told her I’m a middle grade author.
Her eyes lit up. “Are your books here? I’ll get one for my daughter!”
So we went looking for my name on the shelves. And they actually had a few, which isn’t always the case. I handed one to her.
“Let’s see if they have a pen up front!” she said excitedly. “You can sign it!”
Well, by now, I was feeling like a celebrity.
Once I …
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Respectfully I’d rather read about the life cycle of mollusks than another essay on what someone learned from taking a social media break
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Maybe my favourite article I’ve seen on substack to date
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this is the way
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genuinely the best piece i’ve read on substack.. wow.
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I learned today from the ‘You’re wrong about ADHD’ podcast that the Māori word for ADHD is aroreretini which means attention goes to many things and that the word for autism is takiwātanga meaning in their or my own time and space.
How beautiful are they? No disorder, no pathology, no judgement, just description.
I decided to take you up on your suggestion and reformat the list of "40 Bogus Rationales for Allowing Males into Female Sports" to make it easier to find my replies. You can find this modified version in the #Fast Facts section of Stronger Women, which appears here:
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Dostoyevsky did not survive Siberian exile for you to do a queer Marxist reading of the Brothers K
In Iraq's book market, books are left on the street overnight because, as Iraqis say, "the reader does not steal and the thief does not read."
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I'm a medical doctor, but I had to leave the system to tell the truth.
Most of what you’re told about your health is incomplete or completely wrong.
You’re stuck in a system that profits from your symptoms, not your healing.
In my Substack, I write the truth I wasn’t allowed to say inside the system.
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to avoid burnout at work use the 30-30 rule: after 30 minutes of work, quit your job and disappear into the mountains for 30 years.
Geez, who would have guessed that Democratic legislation promoting Green would not be an environmental reference, but would actually be a reference to the cash being dumped into the trough for the grifting pigs 🐖 to slurp up at their convenience. Sure looks like that spigot is being turned off by DOGE, in which case the Democratic grifters will have to seek out another scam or, horror of horrors, get a real job!
On paper, you’re right…but how many of the grifters actually have skills that translate to the real world? Methinks there will be a noticeable bump in unemployment statistics by Q4 2025. Bummer.
Market is becoming bi-polar, tech jobs and “flipping burgers”. As the tech jobs become more intricate and AI takes away human jobs (forget learning to code) less people are needed. The Dems used the grift noted to put people into bullshit jobs, and DOGE is quickly finding them and eliminating them. A word of warning to the Trumpers, you better come up with a plan to re-hire them into meaningful jobs. Obama wanted a service economy and the Dems kept the public quiet by giving minimum wage scales…
