SOME BRIEF THOUGHTS on starting a reading/writing life IN THESE TIMES

this is only tangentially related to the thrust of this blog post but I thought i’d drop it in here because it feels a bit scammy to make a whole separate paid post about, like, HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL NOW. I hate those posts, and think they’re usually written by people who are... See more

Generic, uncontextualized advice is a menace- by definition it attracts the lost and the confused and only makes them more lost and more confused. Even the seemingly most universal, failsafe advice of the ‘work hard’, ‘try your best’, and ‘believe in yourself’ ilk, can be disastrous for certain people. It can merely act as a motivator and energy... See more