Why I read I first started reading in my junior year of high school. Not as in “I didn’t know how to read before” — I went through the requisite litany of young adult fantasy with everyone else growing up: Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Eragon, etc. But it was starting junior year that I really began to read consistently, broadly (as in non-fiction), and increasingly purposefully.
> As a deterrant to myself, I go to moderate lengths to make this substack unappealing and unattractive to would-be readers. There is absolutely no topical theme and no sign-up buttons anywhere; and I do this so as to confine this space to be free of impure motivations. I only publish this publically to harness the monkey-brain in me that likes clicking “publish” on a semi-finished artifact of work, which motivates me to actually finish things.
lol I love this:
> As a deterrant to myself, I go to moderate lengths to make this substack unappealing and unattractive to would-be readers. There is absolutely no topical theme and no sign-up buttons anywhere; and I do this so as to confine this space to be free of impure motivations. I only publish this publically to harness the monkey-brain in me that likes clicking “publish” on a semi-finished artifact of work, which motivates me to actually finish things.