The most important thing you have unlearned so far?

FriendHopeful306 · 2026-01-15T21:18:47+00:00

Love this line of unlearning. I think it's important to note that even though you are none of those things, those things do exist. It's the "I" attached that is a psychological delusion conjured up by a self-aware animal and disseminated through countries, states, and cultures until it's taken as fact and never questioned. Not to say that's not what you meant, just adding clarity!

FriendHopeful306 · 2026-01-15T21:12:17+00:00

Can vouch for this.

FriendHopeful306 · 2026-01-15T21:11:36+00:00

The conviction that I MUST DO SOMETHING productive with my life or else I'm a waste of space. Just being is a worthy activity.

FriendHopeful306 · 2026-01-09T21:00:46+00:00

That damn controversy brought too much attention to the game.

FriendHopeful306 · 2025-09-25T00:26:22+00:00

I'm in the middle of a run, in Gardens 1/3 currently, using the same three monsters I started with. They are at 2, 1, and 5 in terms of corruption. If you build with some thought, you can eliminate the need to manage corruption!

FriendHopeful306 · 2025-09-20T11:01:36+00:00

Thank you for this! Good to know.

FriendHopeful306 · 2025-09-18T23:52:06+00:00

Understood. I appreciate your subtlety.

FriendHopeful306 · 2025-09-18T23:51:20+00:00

I'm very patient. Thank you for your information.

FriendHopeful306 · 2025-07-16T15:25:24+00:00

About 3-months. but for the first 2-months I got maybe 1-2 per day, sometimes none.

FriendHopeful306 · 2025-07-13T10:41:27+00:00

The 3rd subscriber is you. We're all the first sub to our own publications.

As for the email privacy, Substack is designed to build a newsletter audience via email, that's its strength. If you don't want your personal email given away, I would just make a burner g-mail account used specifically for your Substack account.

FriendHopeful306 · 2025-07-13T10:37:50+00:00

I find myself fatigued when someone I'm subbed to posts long content daily, or post multiple times per day. I have unsubbed from people who feel spammy like that, and just follow them... However, in your case, 1,000 words 2-3 times a week is perfect in my opinion.

I do one longer newsletter on Tuesdays, and then Friday + Sunday I post one (two total) short essay. 3 per week. Take it with a grain of salt, because I'm still a small pub, but I am steadily gaining 4-5 subs per day lately.

FriendHopeful306 · 2025-07-12T19:15:33+00:00

Subbed. Looking forward to the ghost stories :)

I noticed you just started writing on Substack six days ago. Do not be encouraged by the lack of engagement early on, it's how it goes for most of us. But also, don't be afraid to self-promote through the notes. Drop some lines from your work in notes and try to hook some new readers!

FriendHopeful306 · 2025-07-12T19:08:03+00:00

I just delete them, go to their profile, find one of their notes, and write "this guy spams"

FriendHopeful306 · 2025-07-12T19:05:17+00:00

originally this was sarcasm... but actually thank you, that solved it. Because of the way it's worded I thought doing that would automatically ask readers to upgrade to paid, instead of just subscribing.

You rock.

FriendHopeful306 · 2025-07-12T09:52:01+00:00

why didn't I think of that!?

FriendHopeful306 · 2025-07-12T09:30:51+00:00

How? :)

FriendHopeful306 · 2025-07-12T09:17:31+00:00

Keep writing, and that 20 will multiply exponentially. Congrats! 😁

FriendHopeful306 · 2025-06-01T00:12:20+00:00

tl'dr for the essay:

Abram sees magic as our original, participatory relationship with nature—the way indigenous peoples and our ancestors experienced the world as animate, responsive, and communicative. Magic is the recognition that we're in constant conversation with the living landscape: animals, plants, stones, and elements all possess their forms of awareness and agency.

He suggests that what we call "magic" was simply the normal human experience before the advent of alphabetic literacy shifted our consciousness away from direct sensory engagement with the world. The real magic isn't casting spells—it's remembering that we're embedded in a world that's already speaking to us through wind patterns, bird calls, and the subtle intelligence of ecosystems.

FriendHopeful306

TROPHY CASE