returning to blogging

I recently listened to an interview with Tyler Cowen and Rick Rubin, on the Tetragrammaton podcast. ¹

He mentioned the difference between Substack and Blogging. Substack is better for long form essays of 1000-2000+ words that gets emailed out to people.

Blogging on the other hand, is much better for shorter posts.

Cowen mentions he treats his blog as a journal writing about everything and anything that he wants to explore further.

I see the value in this. Shorter form posts remove the barrier or anxiety of trying to write a coherent 2000 word piece. You’re free to think in public, play with half baked ideas and posit questions without answers. You can post links, threads, ideas much more frequently.

So this is what I’m going to do moving forward.

What’s important for me is to keep a practice of writing and reading going. Deleting social media (particularly Twitter) has helped with this.

Every Saturday morning, I’ve been going to the Waterstones in Bloomsbury and reading long form journalism (The London/New York Review of Books, The Economist etc).

I even downloaded an RSS reader, and am immersed in my favourite blogs once again.

All of this, has made me want to write and blog more - both publicly and privately. And I’m much better off for it.