Happy New Year!
Okay, here’s the deal. It’s a new year, so I’m going to try something new.
When I started this Substack, my intent was to use it as a forum to share unconventional perspectives and engage in interesting conversations. Although I thoroughly enjoyed writing my initial pieces here, they were fairly formal essays, and a couple of them took me a long time to draft and edit. It was all too slow.
I’m not a full-time professional writer, and it was never my desire to use this platform solely for the publication of highly refined posts. The project became more daunting than it needed to be, and I became less inclined to write here.
I’m honored that so many of you stuck around despite my absence over the past several months, and going forward I’m committed to doing things differently. While I still plan to publish many polished pieces, your expectation should be that most posts here will be short, casual notes or thoughts.
My hope with this change is to bring you more regular content, and more of what you’re likely here for anyway. In any case, this is closer to what I imagined doing when this Substack adventure began. Thanks again for being a subscriber.
Appreciate your honesty about what to expect going forward. It is disappointing to hear, because your written work before Substack was really quite good.
I was operating under the assumption that you’d write and publish new work here on the order of magnitude that you posted on Facebook during your terms in office. During that time, your FB account was fairly prolific, and frequently _uniquely_ insightful.
[Putting my investor hat on]
What do you require, to publish 10 articles per year that have a unique impact?
What do you need, to publish 25 articles per year that have impact?
Is there a book project that could be parallelized (ie pre-published tracts) with articles you publish here on Substack?
Am using these numbers for two reasons: First, to really think though whether you want to run a business publishing original thought, contra-X pieces, and other intellectual works. I sincerely hope you do. Second, because subscribers paying for <10 articles per year are basically doing charity - to you. That may sound harsh, but I believe it’s true. ~25 reasonably articulate articles per year is about the level of work that writers on Substack publish that seems like a fair deal for a $5-$10 per month subscription.
Great to hear from you, Justin. Happy New Year, Go Blue, all of that.