Substack Starters - I Don't Think You're Prepared

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i maintain that my primary point was that industry is actually bad. We give an opinion a belief that we honestly have, at leastt to some degree, that we think could lead us to have a profitable substack. They're right slict what ideas are floating around in our heads. Ther would be a great grift for opening up our own substack. But, y, it couldn't just be joke, like for the journal of controversial ideas, we just made some stuff up. This would have to be, like, what do you really believe the to get that substack off the ground? Like, i don't think either of us are prepared.

David and Tamler lose themselves in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s (pr. ‘chick sent me high’) classic paper on the concept of flow. We talk about the features of flow activities – loss of ego, the merging of your awareness with the activity, and autotelic (not what you think) enjoyment. What makes flow activities so rewarding? Do you need to develop skills over many years to experience them? Do easy and natural social interactions count as flow?

Plus as men of pure virtue, we call an audible and choose not to make fun of a recent paper (with a student as lead author). Instead we pilot a not fully formed idea: “Substack Starters." Now that the economy is tanking, do we have any heterodox beliefs that might lead to profitable Substacks?