Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
readordieaslave.substack.com
Subcultures allow for an escape from status as a zero-sum game. If you’re the king of your own world, you don’t feel bad for being at the bottom of someone else’s social ladder (1, 2). Bloggers know they aren’t universally popular, but it doesn’t matter as long as you have your corner of the internet.
In contrast, Substack totally violates Social... See more
In contrast, Substack totally violates Social... See more
Applied Divinity Studies • [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast
In Britain, what are the differences between the Conservative Party and the Reform Party?
Some autistic people even adjust their clothes to become different characters
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His uncle Hulan had been the first black man to operate a grinding machine at the plant. Later, Hulan became the first (and last) black foreman. Uncle Hulan had taught Wally that a black man had to work twice as hard to get half as far, and even then, folks would grumble that he’d gotten the job only because of affirmative action.
Farah Stockman • American Made
Do minorities have to work twice as hard to prove themselves because of affirmative action?
This seems to insinuate that if merit was the only deciding factor in employment, then it would never even occur to Wally’s white co-workers that he hadn’t earned hi place.
“ You want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you,”
Madeleine L’Engle counseled in her
advice to aspiring writers
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Madeleine L’Engle counseled in her
advice to aspiring writers
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Maria Popova • Celebrated Writers on the Creative Benefits of Keeping a Diary
In fact, a disproportionate amount of the so-called “creator economy” seems to be made up of people who have become financially independent creators by selling courses that purport to tell other people how to become financially independent creators, a Ponzi-like cavalcade of hustle porn that’s creators all the way down.
Against the Term "Creator"
This is definitely the ugly side of place like YouTube. There are so many YouTubers who become successful by telling others how to succeed at YouTube, but all they can suggest is is for other to follow their path and do the same.
In ‘94, the web was small enough that you could browse everything new over the weekend.
Michael Dean • Logloglog #5
Try to be less wrong instead of more right.