Great wrap-up post highlight your outstanding content throughout the year. As a newer paid subscriber, this is great to have one spot to be able to go back and read the gems I haven’t seen yet. Easily one of my favorite accounts on the platform.
I like this format because I can directly support the content this way. Most of the ads on AoM are things I really don’t care about so you don’t make much in referrals off me. This is more direct. Direct is good.
So I missed the Dead Poet's post, and that was a great read.
Reminded me of a time when I was specifically mulling over what I thought of as the "adolescent feeling" that I noticed in myself and in some other people who had this almost radical willingness to say things that contradicted norms but still had an air tightness or a kind of ring of truth, they also give this sense of expanding possibilities for human experience and growth.
Nietzsche of course, also Frank Herbert especially with how the latter characters in the end of Dune kind of mirror different angles of this, Moshe Feldenkrais with how he called a bunch of surgeons stupid and went home to fix his knee himself through movement, some writers on nonduality and Buddhism, also the people I meet in my yoga classes can really carry and embody this mentality. Something about wiggling your body around for an hour makes you feel like a kid lol.
It's been something of a quest to keep arranging my life to contain routines, people, books and ideas that keep this whole idea alive, so it's great to see other people with that same idea.
I noticed recently that honesty can be very powerful, especially emotional honesty, even when it has an edge to it. I recently spoke out against someone in a self improvement group chat I'm a part of - I think that he raises ingenious arguments to undermine people's confidence and have them pay him for coaching. Like how you'll see people online selling one service by dismissing another, like advertising a mobility program while saying yoga doesn't work. He also kept making these deep judgements about our psychology without even knowing us or asking any questions to be able to make judgements like those, or really engaging with people. Just using the group as a sounding board for polemics. So I shared that I was just sick and tired of all this in the group chat a few weeks ago, and I found that suddenly my relationship with another person, who is somewhat of a mentor figure, got a lot closer.
I felt kind of worried to share something that was a little raw and not exactly airtight, but ofc what was really gonna happen? Nobody is gonna come hurt me through the phone. And, I think sticking to trying to logically debunk the persona non gratis wouldn't have really gone anywhere anyways.
Another instance, my mom told me about how she has periodically struggled with executive function (apparently GLP1 is really helping her lol) and that gave me relief, and I can tolerate her "checking in" a little better.
Another stray thought, the whole article reminded me of your Adam I and Adam II piece
Thanks for a great year of articles. I really enjoyed chewing on some of the really meaty ones, like A New Kind of Monasticism series and Nietzsche's Typewriter. I have discussed those ideas with a number of people over the past year. Thanks again!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Brett and Kate! Going over the articles in a list like that made me go, “Dang these are a ton of bangers, one right after the other.”
Quality here is outstanding! The new monasticism and Resonance series’ have stuck with me all year and I’ve been thinking about them a ton!!
Thank you for a great year, and the handy index for the only worthwhile online content. I really appreciate the opportunity to support your work. You are a breed apart. Happy Christmas, and a Merry New Year!
This is the blog that drew me to substack. It's my first paid subscription and I never regretted that. It's what inspired me to write my blog. Probably that is the only criticism people can level against you.
Dying Breed was my intro to Substack, there were quite a few authors I subscribed too coming over that I won’t renew, but Dying Breed is an automatic renewal for me! Keep up the great work.
As a subscriber to AOM for over a decade I was only too happy to subscribe to Dying Breed and support your new venture. The content over the past year has certainly been compelling and continued to meet your well established high standards. Thank you so much for that.
But I've got to tell you I hate the SubStack connection, and was particularly annoyed with the recent thing insisting that I download the substack app. I am not going to do that. And I did not think Brett and Kate McKay would ever support a platform that required your paying customers to download a third party app in order to access their 'paid for' content. I like to choose my sources of intellectual stimulation and substack is not a source I choose (or would choose) but for Dying Breed.
Merry Christmas, and thank you for so many years of wonderful content that truly has improved my life.
Thank you for a great year with the Dying Breed (and AoM) family! I’m looking forward to another great year with you, Brett and Kate, as well as the rest of your readers!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to your family and friends as well as to all who are apart of the Dying Breed community .
This community was my introduction to Substack and all it has to offer. As an AoM follower since 2011, I can somehow say you have only elevated your craft. I’m thankful that this experiment has proven successful and look forward to more in the future.
Great wrap-up post highlight your outstanding content throughout the year. As a newer paid subscriber, this is great to have one spot to be able to go back and read the gems I haven’t seen yet. Easily one of my favorite accounts on the platform.
Merry Christmas to both of you.
Merry Christmas! I appreciate this round up and look forward to digging in to these posts I missed.
Congratulations, thank you, and Merry Christmas!
I like this format because I can directly support the content this way. Most of the ads on AoM are things I really don’t care about so you don’t make much in referrals off me. This is more direct. Direct is good.
So I missed the Dead Poet's post, and that was a great read.
Reminded me of a time when I was specifically mulling over what I thought of as the "adolescent feeling" that I noticed in myself and in some other people who had this almost radical willingness to say things that contradicted norms but still had an air tightness or a kind of ring of truth, they also give this sense of expanding possibilities for human experience and growth.
Nietzsche of course, also Frank Herbert especially with how the latter characters in the end of Dune kind of mirror different angles of this, Moshe Feldenkrais with how he called a bunch of surgeons stupid and went home to fix his knee himself through movement, some writers on nonduality and Buddhism, also the people I meet in my yoga classes can really carry and embody this mentality. Something about wiggling your body around for an hour makes you feel like a kid lol.
It's been something of a quest to keep arranging my life to contain routines, people, books and ideas that keep this whole idea alive, so it's great to see other people with that same idea.
I noticed recently that honesty can be very powerful, especially emotional honesty, even when it has an edge to it. I recently spoke out against someone in a self improvement group chat I'm a part of - I think that he raises ingenious arguments to undermine people's confidence and have them pay him for coaching. Like how you'll see people online selling one service by dismissing another, like advertising a mobility program while saying yoga doesn't work. He also kept making these deep judgements about our psychology without even knowing us or asking any questions to be able to make judgements like those, or really engaging with people. Just using the group as a sounding board for polemics. So I shared that I was just sick and tired of all this in the group chat a few weeks ago, and I found that suddenly my relationship with another person, who is somewhat of a mentor figure, got a lot closer.
I felt kind of worried to share something that was a little raw and not exactly airtight, but ofc what was really gonna happen? Nobody is gonna come hurt me through the phone. And, I think sticking to trying to logically debunk the persona non gratis wouldn't have really gone anywhere anyways.
Another instance, my mom told me about how she has periodically struggled with executive function (apparently GLP1 is really helping her lol) and that gave me relief, and I can tolerate her "checking in" a little better.
Another stray thought, the whole article reminded me of your Adam I and Adam II piece
Thanks for a great year of articles. I really enjoyed chewing on some of the really meaty ones, like A New Kind of Monasticism series and Nietzsche's Typewriter. I have discussed those ideas with a number of people over the past year. Thanks again!
Brett and Kate thank you for the great articles and transparency in work flow processes. I’ve benefitted from your thought provoking work. Truly.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Brett and Kate! Going over the articles in a list like that made me go, “Dang these are a ton of bangers, one right after the other.”
Quality here is outstanding! The new monasticism and Resonance series’ have stuck with me all year and I’ve been thinking about them a ton!!
Thanks for all you guys do!
Thank you for a great year, and the handy index for the only worthwhile online content. I really appreciate the opportunity to support your work. You are a breed apart. Happy Christmas, and a Merry New Year!
This is the blog that drew me to substack. It's my first paid subscription and I never regretted that. It's what inspired me to write my blog. Probably that is the only criticism people can level against you.
Dying Breed was my intro to Substack, there were quite a few authors I subscribed too coming over that I won’t renew, but Dying Breed is an automatic renewal for me! Keep up the great work.
Hey Brett and Kate
Congratulations on a year of Dying Breed.
As a subscriber to AOM for over a decade I was only too happy to subscribe to Dying Breed and support your new venture. The content over the past year has certainly been compelling and continued to meet your well established high standards. Thank you so much for that.
But I've got to tell you I hate the SubStack connection, and was particularly annoyed with the recent thing insisting that I download the substack app. I am not going to do that. And I did not think Brett and Kate McKay would ever support a platform that required your paying customers to download a third party app in order to access their 'paid for' content. I like to choose my sources of intellectual stimulation and substack is not a source I choose (or would choose) but for Dying Breed.
Merry Christmas, and thank you for so many years of wonderful content that truly has improved my life.
Thank you for a great year with the Dying Breed (and AoM) family! I’m looking forward to another great year with you, Brett and Kate, as well as the rest of your readers!
God bless and Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to your family and friends as well as to all who are apart of the Dying Breed community .
This community was my introduction to Substack and all it has to offer. As an AoM follower since 2011, I can somehow say you have only elevated your craft. I’m thankful that this experiment has proven successful and look forward to more in the future.