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I’m thinking to start a practice where I just write out responses to what I read on Substack in my logs. There’s no pressure to comment, or share, or advertise it or whatever. It’s just a semi-public, mostly unnoticed thought process to remember what I read and what I think when I read it. Maybe some of it pushes to Notes too… idk, well see.
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Now: the second-best of times.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
In McLuhanesque terms, the medium is the message. Some people might find that cool.”
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
In 2011 Cowen published a digital pamphlet in which he argued that since the 1973 oil-price shock, America had experienced a hidden crisis of lost growth that would be resolved only by the development of new technology. He called this period the “Great Stagnation”, and he proposed a cultural solution rather than an economic one: raise the social st... See more
archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything
When the twentieth century began, there were very few bookstores and libraries. Many books were sold by “subscription.” Publishers’ representatives literally went door to door soliciting orders.