Readers on Substack often lament that they are unable to find new newsletters, and indeed, the platform will need to improve discoverability as it grows.
Fair enough, sir! I just remember chatting with a co-worker way back at a retail store during boring inventory at dawn, differentiating about company policy and that they must do so for the greater good even if they don’t have to, as in they don’t have to, or it’s not a should? I forget now…
I am qualitatively hostile to “should” what with retail shoulds so forth and other gripes longer than Agrippa has been around in part of philosophy. But I will gladly hop into “must”: As in an enthusiastic invitational “you must try this dish…” Seems less judgmental and less an edict? Long gripe…
It is a recommendation, but I did not have a strict cutoff for how many subscribers a newsletter in order to be featured. (Though I'd note all of these have smaller readership than me.) I did look in my analytics to see if these newsletters had significant overlap in readership, and since they did not that indicated to me that people who read me might not know about them.
What I said in reply to you was that it would be an interesting post to highlight much smaller newsletters – though we'd have to specify size for that – but that I wasn't primarily looking for those much smaller newsletters in this post.
I should not have read Kanakia. Thanks to her, I have that 10-volume Mahabharata arriving my house any day now.
You have to take her advice and read the abridged!
Jared, I should not be bothered to do so. As is my right and preference. But, I will do what I must!
Consider it the bouletic rather than deontic ‘should.’
Fair enough, sir! I just remember chatting with a co-worker way back at a retail store during boring inventory at dawn, differentiating about company policy and that they must do so for the greater good even if they don’t have to, as in they don’t have to, or it’s not a should? I forget now…
I am qualitatively hostile to “should” what with retail shoulds so forth and other gripes longer than Agrippa has been around in part of philosophy. But I will gladly hop into “must”: As in an enthusiastic invitational “you must try this dish…” Seems less judgmental and less an edict? Long gripe…
I'll definitely check these out. Woman of letters sounds particularly interesting. Thank you for the recs, Jared!
Thanks for the kind words!
Contra Shrimp Welfare:
https://simonlaird.substack.com/p/wild-animal-suffering-debunks-utilitarianism
Thanks, Jared, I have subscribed to a couple of these that intrigued me.
What is up with Substack's discovery model? I don't understand why the feed on my homepage has to be basically a twitter clone.
It would have been more interesting to see your recommendations for newsletters with smaller audiences rather than those with an established audience.
That would be an interesting article, but that was not the primary purpose of this one.
I would love to know what the primary purpose is given that you state at the beginning of your article:
“Until that day, perhaps I can do my part by suggesting a few newsletters to you, my dear readers.
And so, here are 5 newsletters I think you should read. Consider subscribing to them and, if you haven’t already”
To me at least, that sounds like a recommendation.
It is a recommendation, but I did not have a strict cutoff for how many subscribers a newsletter in order to be featured. (Though I'd note all of these have smaller readership than me.) I did look in my analytics to see if these newsletters had significant overlap in readership, and since they did not that indicated to me that people who read me might not know about them.
What I said in reply to you was that it would be an interesting post to highlight much smaller newsletters – though we'd have to specify size for that – but that I wasn't primarily looking for those much smaller newsletters in this post.