Your reflections about the Substack ecosystem and how is has been changing are very much in line with what has been bouncing around in my mind. I did build a backdoor of sorts with my EtherHam.com site, in case I choose to leave Substack. Masterful writing, Christian, and very much appreciated. I always enjoy your wide-ranging observations about life and our place in it.
Funny thing, though: when I'm at my computer, I'm writing. I didn't actually read this issue of Documentally. Instead, I listened to it through the Substack app while I drove to get coffee this morning. Yep, that's another of the golden handcuffs that this platform uses to keep writers and readers here.
Please do keep writing, no matter what platform you choose to use!
Hi Tom, Thanks for commenting and for your kind words. I appreciate it.
I have written a 'newsletter' in some shape of form since the 90's in hotmail and weekly for the last 10 years. What I'd really like to do is get something long form out... so I've been contemplating for the last couple of years that I should put all this on hold and just get the damn thing done.
The issue is that this is my only income. Albeit small. So the pull and dependency is very much there.
The reality is that I could go and get a job in a bar one day a week and probably bridge the gap... But this is more fun. So you might be stuck with me for a little while longer. :-)
Isn't it interesting that the heart reacts to fear, stress & anxiety with the same physical sensation stimulated by the exhilaration of attraction, sexual desire or Love? Took my breath away ...
Your reflections about the Substack ecosystem and how is has been changing are very much in line with what has been bouncing around in my mind. I did build a backdoor of sorts with my EtherHam.com site, in case I choose to leave Substack. Masterful writing, Christian, and very much appreciated. I always enjoy your wide-ranging observations about life and our place in it.
Funny thing, though: when I'm at my computer, I'm writing. I didn't actually read this issue of Documentally. Instead, I listened to it through the Substack app while I drove to get coffee this morning. Yep, that's another of the golden handcuffs that this platform uses to keep writers and readers here.
Please do keep writing, no matter what platform you choose to use!
Hi Tom, Thanks for commenting and for your kind words. I appreciate it.
I have written a 'newsletter' in some shape of form since the 90's in hotmail and weekly for the last 10 years. What I'd really like to do is get something long form out... so I've been contemplating for the last couple of years that I should put all this on hold and just get the damn thing done.
The issue is that this is my only income. Albeit small. So the pull and dependency is very much there.
The reality is that I could go and get a job in a bar one day a week and probably bridge the gap... But this is more fun. So you might be stuck with me for a little while longer. :-)
Isn't it interesting that the heart reacts to fear, stress & anxiety with the same physical sensation stimulated by the exhilaration of attraction, sexual desire or Love? Took my breath away ...