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.
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.
After reading Your Birthday Greeting, Debt Ceiling, and Town Hall pieces, i became an Annual Subscriber, and am looking forward very much to getting Your perspectives on what promises to be a Very interesting year for the United States and for the rest of the Planet.
If i may, i'd like to plant a couple of seeds on things i would love read Your thoughts on:
1. Will there be a national election in November 2024? And if there is, will there be a Presidential inauguration and seating of a new Congress in January 2025? And if there isn't, then what?
2. Will the United States survive to celebrate its 250th birthday on July 4, 2026, 914 days from today? And if it does, will the American Peoples be in any condition or mood to celebrate anything?
3. What is the bottom-line, root cause of the decline, demise, and destruction of America's Middle Class?
4. What are Your thoughts on the Israel-Palestine War and America's War with Russia in Ukraine?
It's a shame You're not still in Congress, Justin; this nation could use You there in the months ahead very much. ~ jeff Sitka, Alaska
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.
Welcome Back, Justin.
After reading Your Birthday Greeting, Debt Ceiling, and Town Hall pieces, i became an Annual Subscriber, and am looking forward very much to getting Your perspectives on what promises to be a Very interesting year for the United States and for the rest of the Planet.
If i may, i'd like to plant a couple of seeds on things i would love read Your thoughts on:
1. Will there be a national election in November 2024? And if there is, will there be a Presidential inauguration and seating of a new Congress in January 2025? And if there isn't, then what?
2. Will the United States survive to celebrate its 250th birthday on July 4, 2026, 914 days from today? And if it does, will the American Peoples be in any condition or mood to celebrate anything?
3. What is the bottom-line, root cause of the decline, demise, and destruction of America's Middle Class?
4. What are Your thoughts on the Israel-Palestine War and America's War with Russia in Ukraine?
It's a shame You're not still in Congress, Justin; this nation could use You there in the months ahead very much. ~ jeff Sitka, Alaska