Yeah it's a feature in Substack. You can either speak directly into the computer or make the recordings yourself and upload them. I'm going to start trying it for some of my shorter pieces as I reckon there are many people who would like to hear about the ideas shared on Substack but can't make time to read as easily as making time to listen.
Great to see it published Harrison! I am really looking forward to seeing your monsters and angels battle it out in the future. Whether you keep compounding and build your dream with the angels or let the monsters of the leash once in a while :)
I see you've decided to cut the other examples and double down on Nyad. The piece is shorter and punchier now. Nice job! There's something intoxicating about watching others follow their grandiose dreams with such relentless focus, disregarding everything else. It makes me wonder if the price for greatness is always hiding something insidious.
Thanks Diana, and thanks for your feedback with it, your question in-doc was such a great question! In fact, honestly I'd love to see you just post that very question into Notes and try to get some conversations going about it.
The idea that all greatness hides something insidious is indeed what I was trying to get at with this piece. Jung certainly believed that's how it tended to worked in his psychiatric practice.
To play devil's advocate with it though, Georg Bulmer made a great point to me, which was that there are plenty of examples of people who've become successful in an outsized way but haven't necessarily done it by tearing through their relationships, but by compounding something over very long stretches of time. He used the example of Warren Buffet the investor. We obviously don't know Buffet personally, and he may well be monstrous behind closed doors, but I doubt it, as that would've come out by now I reckon in today's culture. And Georg's point is a good one. It gives me hope that I can—I CAN—achieve outsized goals without turning into a massive nob
LOVE the recording of this! Didn’t know that was an option! So cool. Great edits to the piece too- nice work!
Yeah it's a feature in Substack. You can either speak directly into the computer or make the recordings yourself and upload them. I'm going to start trying it for some of my shorter pieces as I reckon there are many people who would like to hear about the ideas shared on Substack but can't make time to read as easily as making time to listen.
Thanks for your help with this piece, Meryl
Couldn't agree more, plus what a personal touch! I got to hear your voice in your rhythm tell me your story. Love it.
Thanks Meryl
Great to see it published Harrison! I am really looking forward to seeing your monsters and angels battle it out in the future. Whether you keep compounding and build your dream with the angels or let the monsters of the leash once in a while :)
Georg, I think you've nailed it: surely it's about having a foot on BOTH sides of the divide, right? They don't call them "the dark arts" for nothing.
Thanks again for your feedback!
I see you've decided to cut the other examples and double down on Nyad. The piece is shorter and punchier now. Nice job! There's something intoxicating about watching others follow their grandiose dreams with such relentless focus, disregarding everything else. It makes me wonder if the price for greatness is always hiding something insidious.
Thanks Diana, and thanks for your feedback with it, your question in-doc was such a great question! In fact, honestly I'd love to see you just post that very question into Notes and try to get some conversations going about it.
The idea that all greatness hides something insidious is indeed what I was trying to get at with this piece. Jung certainly believed that's how it tended to worked in his psychiatric practice.
To play devil's advocate with it though, Georg Bulmer made a great point to me, which was that there are plenty of examples of people who've become successful in an outsized way but haven't necessarily done it by tearing through their relationships, but by compounding something over very long stretches of time. He used the example of Warren Buffet the investor. We obviously don't know Buffet personally, and he may well be monstrous behind closed doors, but I doubt it, as that would've come out by now I reckon in today's culture. And Georg's point is a good one. It gives me hope that I can—I CAN—achieve outsized goals without turning into a massive nob
Haha could be a perfect sentence for another piece: "It gives me hope that I can—I CAN—achieve outsized goals without turning into a massive nob“
That's the thing about essays, isn't it? Essays are essay-generating machines!