They said it couldn’t be done

This is going to be a lot of work with little remuneration (most likely)

No one reads personal stories anymore, they said. Don’t start a Substack unless you have an audience already, they said. You’re competing with content providers like The New York Times and The Atlantic and thousands of SEO-optimized blogs without any SEO, they said.

I did it anyway.

Am I a fool? Maybe. But I can’t seem to stop myself from writing. I’ve been doing it for years on Facebook, enriching Meta and making sure the American Thought Police will have plenty on me in the civil wars to come. If I can’t stop, won’t stop, I think Substack is a better forum.

So here we go.

Image: Still from Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (DreamWorks Pictures); meme via Facebook.

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