Thanks so much for writing about your experiences. It definitely helps keep me a little more grounded about my own expectations for Substack and its alluring fantasy. I deeply, deeply grok where you're coming from when you wrote of your "almost knee-jerk reaction now against anything that feels like it cou…
Thanks so much for writing about your experiences. It definitely helps keep me a little more grounded about my own expectations for Substack and its alluring fantasy. I deeply, deeply grok where you're coming from when you wrote of your "almost knee-jerk reaction now against anything that feels like it could suck me in and command all my waking energy." I'm single, no kids, but I have nieces and nephews and family and friends and so much else that I want to do to feed the soul even as I pursue work that might do the same.
Also, I just read your post on the cult of positive thinking in academia and had several of those "oh-my-god-yes-someone-else-gets-it-I'm-not-crazy" moments while reading.
I'll write more in the course of hanging out here and will drop you a line privately with a few more thoughts. Take good care and best wishes to you!
Hello Josh, I'm glad to be here!
Thanks so much for writing about your experiences. It definitely helps keep me a little more grounded about my own expectations for Substack and its alluring fantasy. I deeply, deeply grok where you're coming from when you wrote of your "almost knee-jerk reaction now against anything that feels like it could suck me in and command all my waking energy." I'm single, no kids, but I have nieces and nephews and family and friends and so much else that I want to do to feed the soul even as I pursue work that might do the same.
Also, I just read your post on the cult of positive thinking in academia and had several of those "oh-my-god-yes-someone-else-gets-it-I'm-not-crazy" moments while reading.
I'll write more in the course of hanging out here and will drop you a line privately with a few more thoughts. Take good care and best wishes to you!