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magnificent rendition of this beautiful song.

measuring something’s value by how much money it makes is like measuring he value of sex by the amount spent on prostitution

When I started writing a newsletter in 2019, I remember thinking there were too many newsletters. That was before Substack had made a meaningful dent on the Internet and only a handful of writers were seriously using it. The coolest things do not yet exist. You are not late.

agents is such a fucking buzzword. nothing i have tried has worked well in the "abstract + precise" zone

an evocative, beautiful piece of writing about new york city written just after 9/11. recommended by Andy Weissman.