If you feel so inclined, please take a moment to visit the new Stoic Breviary page on Substack.
The older material from the three books is gradually being presented there, cleaned up as best we can manage, in the form of paid content, at a modest price.
There is also free content, which involves revisions of many reflections that have appeared on this blog, as well as other odds and ends.
If you wish to subscribe, one benefit is receiving new entries via e-mail, which may be more convenient for some readers.
Substack's new "Notes" feature is also worth perusing, with many of the advantages of Twitter, but, at least for now, far less of the nasty bickering. It gives hope that social media can perhaps rise to a higher standard. . . .
Are you thinking of retiring your blogspot?
ReplyDeleteNo, it will keep going, as long as there is someone around in the family to edit and add material! Can you believe it's in its seventh year? Closing in on 6,000 posts? Just over 1.2 million visits?
DeleteThe idea with the Substack is threefold:
First, it is a way for kindly folks to help with this dorky project. The "earnings" from the first two months went toward a new external drive to hold the ridiculous amounts of Stoic data ;-)
Second, this was never a profit-driven enterprise, but there is no fair way to revise the original books in a totally free format, without doing wrong to the people who originally paid money for it years ago. In hindsight, we would never have published the three books at all, and we would have made it all free, but you live and learn. . . .
Third, it is just another way to share the overall content in a new way, and to do some much-needed editing on the older blog entries. It doesn't take thousand of readers to make a difference—perhaps a few dozen new people might find it to be helpful. Less can be more.
Fair enough. I'm using my Substack in a similar way for some of my older essays.
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