your heart knows when a story is True in some very deep way. there's some phenomena i call "slop sickness" where you get this horrible churning feeling in your stomach from reading a story that isn't resonant, when a company is stealing the soul of another. you can feel it
Will Manidisx.comyour heart knows when a story is True in some very deep way. there's some phenomena i call "slop sickness" where you get this horrible churning feeling in your stomach from reading a story that isn't resonant, when a company is stealing the soul of another. you can feel it
You know that gut instinct? That visceral hit, that fuzzy chill that shows up uninvited — a warning, or a sudden go for it, even when nothing's clear. We’ve all felt it. Sometimes we trust it. Sometimes we shove it under a pile of airtight reasoning. But it always comes back. Stubborn. Unsettling. And often right.
Spirit, are you there?
Remember that work created in the spirit of commerce, that doesn’t spring from some sense of passion, some place of truth within you, will rarely be successful.
Summer Brennan • "How to Succeed on Substack"
We understand a story’s meaning, in part, by tracking its causality, and a story’s power stems from our sense that its causality is truthful, which is to say, that its internal logic is solid.