📚 The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
JA Westenberg:
I keep thinking about how many interesting folks have essentially stopped writing anything substantial because they've moved their entire intellectual presence to Twitter or Substack Notes. These are people who used to produce ten-thousand-word explorations of complex topics, and now they produce dozens of disconnected fragments per day, each one optimized for immediate engagement and none of them building toward anything coherent.
It's like watching someone who used to compose symphonies decide to only produce ringtones.
Very much worth a read, especially if you're thinking—even a little bit—about starting a blog.