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My focus here on Substack is building community. I don't worry too much about subscriber count. I try to post at least one encouraging note every day (sometimes several!) I engage with other writers and readers by responding to their notes. When I read a newsletter post I enjoy, I do the Substack hat trick: I like the post, repost, and leave a friendly comment.
As a matter of fact, I have seen consistent growth in my subscriber list since I started these simple community oriented practices, but …
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The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy.
Nonetheless, holy shit.
What’s remarkable is that there’s hardly any real news driving this. It’s just investors belatedly realizing that Trump is who he is, and always was.
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Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly
I don’t want reels. I want this to be a place for people who enjoy reading good writing.
I’ll take the thousand words, not the video that replaces them.
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The thing people tend to forget about Fahrenheit 451 is that Bradbury is pretty clear about how by the time they started burning books no one was reading them anyway. That, not the censorship, is the really relevant part.
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“I beg you do not languish at [Jesus'] feet anymore; follow your first impulse and throw yourself into His arms. That is where you belong.”
- St. Thérèse of Lisieux
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Heading back to Disney Hall for another round of John Williams tonight. What a time to be alive…
Anyone else worried about what Substack is turning into? My understanding was that it used to be a place for nerds like you and me to try our hand at writing. But it seems that within five minutes from now it’s going to be essentially another crowd funding hub for videos and audio which I fear will drown out the written word.
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This is the beginning of a massive fall of MAGA.
No amount of division, fear mongering, lies, and cheap lines will overcome the fact that you just took many people’s prosperity just because it makes you feel powerful.
Mark my words, the beginning of the end.
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This weekend I was talking to a teacher about listening to the community. She told me that earlier in her career on the week before school the principal loaded up the teachers on a school bus and had them ride the route of their incoming students. The principal said, “If you’re going to help your kids learn, you have to understand where …
📢 “Men can afford to skip college… College helps women overcome—or at least it helps them occasionally avoid the worst of—sexism. The current GOP assault on education should be understood in that context.“ 📢
