Newsletter ideas

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Apart from Psychopolitica, I’ve been working on two other newsletters, as an illustrator, editor, and creative director: one by my long-term collaborator, journalist and psychobuddhist Robert Wright; and one by economist, public intellectual and anti-woke crusader Glenn Loury.

I noticed that I approach these projects very differently.

I’m very practical when it comes to other people’s work—I think in terms of schedule, growth models, systematic ways to develop the enterprise—and I get kind of flimsy when it comes to my own. I write when inspiration strikes (I’m lucky to put out two issues a month), and I’ve only recently started to experiment with collaborations (with very rewarding results).

Working on other people’s newsletters showed me how much I’m losing by doing things that way. It also showed me that a lot is possible on Substack—it’s a beautiful medium that’s waiting for people to use it creatively, in hundreds of different ways.

So this weekend, on a trip to Moscow—death-related…