About This Endeavor

There's something particularly absurd about adding yet another voice to the internet's endless chorus. And yet, here we are – you reading, me writing, both of us presumably having better things to do with our finite time on this planet.

Why Write?

The question isn't why you should read this – that's your existential burden to bear. The question that haunts me is why write at all, why contribute to the digital cacophony when silence is often the wiser choice?

Perhaps it's the persistent itch of thoughts that refuse to stay contained within the confines of my own mind. Or maybe it's the peculiar modern condition of needing to externalize our internal monologues, to cast them into the void and see what echoes back.

The Social Contract

If you choose to subscribe, you're not just getting my thoughts (though you'll certainly get plenty of those). You're entering into a tacit agreement where I promise to articulate the questions that keep me awake at night, and you, in return, might find something worth pondering in your own sleepless hours.

For the Aaronists – our founding members who, through either profound insight or questionable judgment, decided to support this endeavor financially – you get the unfiltered stream of consciousness, the deeper dives into whatever rabbit holes have captured my attention that week.

A Note on Format

Free subscribers receive occasional dispatches – think of them as postcards from the edge of whatever intellectual cliff I'm currently peering over. Paid subscribers get the full travelogue, complete with all the wrong turns and dead ends that make any journey worth taking.

Why Here? Why Now?

In a world already drowning in content, starting a Substack might seem like bringing sand to the beach. But perhaps that's precisely the point. In an age of algorithmic certainty and AI-generated wisdom, there's something almost defiantly human about sharing unpolished thoughts, about thinking out loud in public.

Fair Warning

This isn't a newsletter about easy answers or five-step solutions to complex problems. It's a record of ongoing contemplation, of questions that lead to more questions, of thoughts that refuse to resolve themselves into neat conclusions.

The comments section, should you choose to venture there, is less a traditional discussion forum and more a collective attempt to make sense of our shared confusion. The Aaronists, in particular, have proven themselves remarkably adept at adding new layers to our shared perplexity.

The Invitation

So here's my proposition: Subscribe if you enjoy watching someone attempt to untangle the threads of their own thoughts in public. Stay if you find value in questioning rather than answering, in exploring rather than concluding.

Or don't. That's the beauty of this arrangement – we're all here by choice, participating in this peculiar experiment of public contemplation.

Welcome to whatever this becomes.