For a variety of reasons, I am going to experiment with moving my regular contemplations, newsletter information, short essays, and blogs over to Substack. Here is the link.

My goal is to be less entangled with Meta products in general, which have felt like a marketing black hole for a number of years even before the overall quality of their sites declined significantly in the past few months. Substack offers an opportunity to provide the same writing I’ve always done with the opportunity for a motivated reader to offer financial support. I also appreciate the community of thoughtful people who aren’t afraid of a read longer than 250 characters.

I am also aware of critiques of Substack in terms of their allowing extreme authors who promote hate speech to also share and participate in their community. To be honest, at this moment in history, I am not sure if there is any escape from that.

Consider this a “soft launch” that I will experiment with for the months to come, and will likely not be updating this blog space until and unless it makes more sense to return. A part of me would like to be able to maintain all of these spaces but I am increasingly finding it overwhelming to tend and curate all the different social media spaces.