my favorite substack notes
1. The aim of my writing is never to make money. If there are opportunities, I will pay attention, but it is never the direct aim. I obsessively focus on other funding mechanisms such that I don't have to worry much about how to monetize writing.
2. I write for readers like me. I dislike a lot of the current trends in books. I think they dumb down t... See more
2. I write for readers like me. I dislike a lot of the current trends in books. I think they dumb down t... See more
Paul Millerd • Tweet
Such a great picture: Leap into the Void, 1960, Artistic action by Yves Klein.
Andy Adamssubstack.com
• About 99% of the time, the right time is right now.
• No one is as impressed with your possessions as you are.
• Dont ever work for someone you dont want to become.
• Cultivate 12 people who love you, because they are worth more than 12 million people who like you.
• Dont keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes.
• If you stop to listen... See more
• No one is as impressed with your possessions as you are.
• Dont ever work for someone you dont want to become.
• Cultivate 12 people who love you, because they are worth more than 12 million people who like you.
• Dont keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes.
• If you stop to listen... See more
Sublime
I tried, and failed, to write about newborns when Peach was still new. I wanted desperately to capture the essence of the newborn period - a time in which we both wore diapers, in which I was so tired I didn’t know my own name, and in which I was punch drunk on love - before I was consumed in the daily drudgery that is older baby and toddler life -... See more
Charlotte (has) Baby Brainsubstack.com
I am not one for ‘reaching out’ to people. I think it’s the Brit in me. It feels icky. Pushy. A bit entitled. But a few weeks ago I reached out via Instagram to an author whose name i had heard whispered about in certain writerly circles.
It was said she has purchased the old Provencal home of Robert Kime, the legendary British decorator, and had... See more
Farrah @Substacksubstack.com
In a letter to a friend in 1899, Wilbur Wright wrote:
“I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man.
My disease has increased in severity and I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life.”
In our recent Dialectic conversation, I asked @Nadia if ideas are created, discovered, or assembled... See more
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