Back to Long Form Writing

Why even do this?

I’ve missed long form writing - creating and reading it. Social media changed its algorithms by punishing outgoing links to outside sites. Google rigged its search engine in favor of Pravda. Good writing good buried underneath search results of “credible” websites like hoax news outlets.

My Twitter account is, by any measure, a source of the most insightful and interesting political commentary ever seen in human history.

In real life, if you know me as a friend, you don’t even bring up politics for more than a couple minutes. Who cares? Focus on what matters more.

But when I post tweets that are “off the beaten path,” news heads tell me: “WE DON’T CARE,” or “THAT’S NOT WHY WE READ YOU.” Congratulations for being blocked. You’re not entitled to dictate content. Bye.

Anyway this Substack will be less about the political system and more about life, love, and the fear that holds all of us back.

Hence the title: The Other Side of Fear.

Most articles will be free, but we will have regular paid subscriber Q&A’s and maybe group Zoom calls or something.

If whatever a subscription costs is a lot of money to you, please don’t feel any sort of obligation to sign up because you like me or read all the free stuff for years. Stick with the free plan. No one will take it personally.

I genuinely do appreciate paid subs to the stack. Most of the money will be put back into the ecosystem. There are a lot of talented people who could use freelance work. Maybe I’ll hire an editor for typos. Get going on films again. Stuff like that.

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