I’m very grateful to be alive in a time like this where it is possible to do something like this blog and support my family with it. Getting to this point was hard at times, yes. But five years ago, before Substack, these essays could not have been written at all. So thank you, thank you so much for being here, and in particular, thank you to... See more

less like “trying to write essays” and more like tending our conversation and harvesting thoughts

if you break the script and then run into problems, people (not all people, but many) take it as proof that you were wrong and they were right