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How to brainwash your mind in next 7 days:

  1. Wake up and don't look at your phone for 1 hour.

  2. Drink 3 litres of water every day.

  3. Do your most important task in the morning.

  4. Exercise at least 1 hour per day.

  5. Replace social media with knowledge books.

I decided to keep my Substack free.

Yes, I’d love to have thousands of paid subscribers.

Yes, I’d love to quit all other work and just write.

Yes, I’d love to be on an island, tapping away, all the bills paid.

But more than that I want to connect with as many people as possible. I want to share. I want to change the world with my words.

That’s the real gold right there.

This is SCARY. Free speech is the bedrock of democracy..

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.

I've Seen Fire & I've Seen Pain (Ezekiel 20:45-49)

“Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one.’” - C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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Hallo

Today I start using Substack

I used to like Twitter but always felt very constrained by the 144 limit

This brought problems for the irony-challenged, who misunderstood a lot of what I was trying to say

This is a particular problem for me because I seem to be regarded as ‘on the left’ by people on the right, and' ‘on the right’ by people on the left

Apparently this makes me controversial, and therefore box office poison