You pen great opening lines. The one on your About page had me instantly laughing out loud. I'm listening, and trying to learn from that. I wish you great luck with your substack adventure, but suspect you probably don't need it.
This seems the appropriate place to cast my one little vote on what I'd hope you might focus on here. Fair warning, the topics I prefer tend to be audience killers. This may raise the question, is your blog for intellectual inquiry, or is it a business?
There is a HUGE amount of attention being given to the day to day headlines all over substack and beyond. What I hope to be reading more of is a wider perspective. Some examples...
EXAMPLE: Sooner or later some conflict like the war in Ukraine is going to spin out of control, and then it won't matter who won in Ukraine, because everyone on every side will lose. How do we escape this pattern?
EXAMPLE: I'm all for gun control, more the merrier, but if we got rid of all guns violent men would then just turn their attention to other means of chaos, like arson, poisoning the water supply, driving their cars in to crowds etc.
Whether the chaos is local or on the global stage, how do we shift our attention from the day to day details of particular circumstances to the source of almost all human chaos, violent men? When do we get around to focusing on the actual problem??
Dan, I've been a follower since 2008 (your old FP reading list--great, BTW--on your blog. You were also the first person I saw point out FiveThirtyEight, way back then), and was flat-out psyched that you started this. You, Heather Cox Richardson and Tim Snyder are on my must-read list. Wish you the greatest of success with this.
Would love more perspectives from you on the DC geoeconomics statecraft discourse! The DC think tank community could benefit from well intentioned critique
You can always bring both voices to the party. The wonderful part about being able to click publish yourself is that your powder to write another post is always dry. Perhaps the most interesting approach would be your riffing on your own more defined observation as a one two punch of missive brilliance.
You pen great opening lines. The one on your About page had me instantly laughing out loud. I'm listening, and trying to learn from that. I wish you great luck with your substack adventure, but suspect you probably don't need it.
This seems the appropriate place to cast my one little vote on what I'd hope you might focus on here. Fair warning, the topics I prefer tend to be audience killers. This may raise the question, is your blog for intellectual inquiry, or is it a business?
There is a HUGE amount of attention being given to the day to day headlines all over substack and beyond. What I hope to be reading more of is a wider perspective. Some examples...
EXAMPLE: Sooner or later some conflict like the war in Ukraine is going to spin out of control, and then it won't matter who won in Ukraine, because everyone on every side will lose. How do we escape this pattern?
EXAMPLE: I'm all for gun control, more the merrier, but if we got rid of all guns violent men would then just turn their attention to other means of chaos, like arson, poisoning the water supply, driving their cars in to crowds etc.
Whether the chaos is local or on the global stage, how do we shift our attention from the day to day details of particular circumstances to the source of almost all human chaos, violent men? When do we get around to focusing on the actual problem??
Dan, I've been a follower since 2008 (your old FP reading list--great, BTW--on your blog. You were also the first person I saw point out FiveThirtyEight, way back then), and was flat-out psyched that you started this. You, Heather Cox Richardson and Tim Snyder are on my must-read list. Wish you the greatest of success with this.
Would love more perspectives from you on the DC geoeconomics statecraft discourse! The DC think tank community could benefit from well intentioned critique
~Twenty year reader here - user any style you like, but it's the old school blogging voice I've enjoyed the most.
You can always bring both voices to the party. The wonderful part about being able to click publish yourself is that your powder to write another post is always dry. Perhaps the most interesting approach would be your riffing on your own more defined observation as a one two punch of missive brilliance.