Take a shot at the two questions above and feel free to discuss anything else that pops into your mind. Hit the like button at the top of the page as well to like this entry.
Recording video can I suggest you take a page from Lean Out with Tara Hanley and provide a typescript of your podcast/interviews - not a podcast listener, but a happy reader
Me personally am just working as is my job as a machinist, is what is it if tha follows what tha means cocker.
As regards suggestions, I'd like to see an interview of Rolo Slavskiy plus maybe an appearance with the Lotus Easters (you can find em on the YouTubes, main man goes by the name Carl Benjamin.
Another person worth following is Historian Peter Turchin. He was recently interviewed (yes I did listen to a podcast) by Bari Weiss, fascinating stuff.
And as an aside this really interesting substack by Nate Sliver about how Twitter has changed under Elon.
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1. Working, reading, writing a novel, going to daily Mass. Keeping things minimalist. Need cash, so no vacation. Boo hoo for poor little me.
2. Keep doing what you are doing. It’s not broken, don’t fix it.
Just listened to Rudyard Kipling’s Kim on LibriVox. Third time through. Listened to in my car during my commutes over a couple of weeks. Still a favorite, still a masterpiece. There’s a lot about the contemporary world that is insane or horrible. But being able to get a great novel read by a talented actor, for free, on your phone, anytime you want it, is one of those ridiculously great things that we now take for granted.
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I crave more interviews, always more interviews. It would also be cool if you'd be able to appear on more podcasts.
This summer, I've taken 8 weeks off - longest vacation I've ever had - and I've been spending most of this time with various programming tutorials.
I'm in my late 30s now and I had forgotten what it feels like to learn something entirely new, where none of the intuitions you've developed in your life and career so far are going to help you much; it's frustrating and exhilarating and I feel deeply retarded most of the time. I think it's good for the soul.
2. More minute-by-minute coverage of the 2027 French Election. I hear something will happen that day. I would also enjoy a dialogue between you and a jihadi intellectual wherein you compete to see who can make the best case for America as The Great Satan.
The project for the summer is re-learning how to garden on a small scale. Growing up, mom always had a MASSIVE garden and we put up all our own vegetables for winter...that is a huge undertaking and I'm happy to have just a few meals worth to start out.
As for the substack, I really enjoy it all but my favorites are the long form, multi part essays like Early Days of HIV, Turbo America, and color revolutions.
A road trip with my wife through South Western Ontario, hiking provincial parks and conservation areas, staying in small towns eating in roadside diners. Outside the metastasizing sprawl of the Toronto it's all quite lovely.
I just realized that Split is very close to the island of Brač. I don't have any Croatian ancestry myself but used to live in a place with a lot Croatian descendants, most of their grandparents where immigrants from Brač. Would love to go to Brač someday.
1.- Sold my previous company. Left my country. Now trying to get my own Substack going.
2.- Would love to see more on regions of the world outside of the North Atlantic and East Asia.
Currently enjoying the hiking around Loveland Pass in Colorado. Would like to see you take on the "Years of Lead". I remember you contemplating writing a series on this subject a while back.
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Honestly, I forgot that it was summer. I live in Guatemala, the "Land of Eternal Spring". I think the broad lack of seasonality is what gives Latin America its feverish feeling of time blending together, which can be felt in its literature (magical realism).
In this Substack, hmm. I feel like there are three things I see here:
1. America is so powerful, completely dominant.
2. Basic rightwing talking points
3. How the world power structure is organized
#1 is good because it's much truer than the nonsense about imminent collapse. #2 is just completely uninteresting to me. And #3 is what I'm here for. I want left and right wing to be as irrelevant as the divide between Constantinople and Rome is today. At your best, your writing achieves that.
after a week's vacation I'm realizing I'm a very dull knife.
running my coffee roastery and working on increasing readership of the local news substack we spun up earlier this year after the local paper disappeared.
Take a shot at the two questions above and feel free to discuss anything else that pops into your mind. Hit the like button at the top of the page as well to like this entry.
Recording video can I suggest you take a page from Lean Out with Tara Hanley and provide a typescript of your podcast/interviews - not a podcast listener, but a happy reader
This summer? As a new subscriber, I'm binge-reading previous FbF pieces. Of course.
Ooga booga.
Nice motorcycle, is it yours?
Me personally am just working as is my job as a machinist, is what is it if tha follows what tha means cocker.
As regards suggestions, I'd like to see an interview of Rolo Slavskiy plus maybe an appearance with the Lotus Easters (you can find em on the YouTubes, main man goes by the name Carl Benjamin.
Another person worth following is Historian Peter Turchin. He was recently interviewed (yes I did listen to a podcast) by Bari Weiss, fascinating stuff.
And as an aside this really interesting substack by Nate Sliver about how Twitter has changed under Elon.
www.natesilver.net/p/twitter-elon-and-the-indigo-blob?r=8ahwm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
1. Working, reading, writing a novel, going to daily Mass. Keeping things minimalist. Need cash, so no vacation. Boo hoo for poor little me.
2. Keep doing what you are doing. It’s not broken, don’t fix it.
Just listened to Rudyard Kipling’s Kim on LibriVox. Third time through. Listened to in my car during my commutes over a couple of weeks. Still a favorite, still a masterpiece. There’s a lot about the contemporary world that is insane or horrible. But being able to get a great novel read by a talented actor, for free, on your phone, anytime you want it, is one of those ridiculously great things that we now take for granted.
I crave more interviews, always more interviews. It would also be cool if you'd be able to appear on more podcasts.
This summer, I've taken 8 weeks off - longest vacation I've ever had - and I've been spending most of this time with various programming tutorials.
I'm in my late 30s now and I had forgotten what it feels like to learn something entirely new, where none of the intuitions you've developed in your life and career so far are going to help you much; it's frustrating and exhilarating and I feel deeply retarded most of the time. I think it's good for the soul.
1. Tooling around Mexico
2. More minute-by-minute coverage of the 2027 French Election. I hear something will happen that day. I would also enjoy a dialogue between you and a jihadi intellectual wherein you compete to see who can make the best case for America as The Great Satan.
More book club, and perhaps more of the travel writing w/ political/social commentary. Niccolo in America would be interesting.
For myself, completing my forest cabin/future home, and hopefully finishing my long-in-production animated short film as well
The project for the summer is re-learning how to garden on a small scale. Growing up, mom always had a MASSIVE garden and we put up all our own vegetables for winter...that is a huge undertaking and I'm happy to have just a few meals worth to start out.
As for the substack, I really enjoy it all but my favorites are the long form, multi part essays like Early Days of HIV, Turbo America, and color revolutions.
A road trip with my wife through South Western Ontario, hiking provincial parks and conservation areas, staying in small towns eating in roadside diners. Outside the metastasizing sprawl of the Toronto it's all quite lovely.
I just realized that Split is very close to the island of Brač. I don't have any Croatian ancestry myself but used to live in a place with a lot Croatian descendants, most of their grandparents where immigrants from Brač. Would love to go to Brač someday.
1.- Sold my previous company. Left my country. Now trying to get my own Substack going.
2.- Would love to see more on regions of the world outside of the North Atlantic and East Asia.
Currently enjoying the hiking around Loveland Pass in Colorado. Would like to see you take on the "Years of Lead". I remember you contemplating writing a series on this subject a while back.
Honestly, I forgot that it was summer. I live in Guatemala, the "Land of Eternal Spring". I think the broad lack of seasonality is what gives Latin America its feverish feeling of time blending together, which can be felt in its literature (magical realism).
In this Substack, hmm. I feel like there are three things I see here:
1. America is so powerful, completely dominant.
2. Basic rightwing talking points
3. How the world power structure is organized
#1 is good because it's much truer than the nonsense about imminent collapse. #2 is just completely uninteresting to me. And #3 is what I'm here for. I want left and right wing to be as irrelevant as the divide between Constantinople and Rome is today. At your best, your writing achieves that.
after a week's vacation I'm realizing I'm a very dull knife.
running my coffee roastery and working on increasing readership of the local news substack we spun up earlier this year after the local paper disappeared.
for this stack, love to see more Kanye coverage.