HeyJaredAltered
Free falling into the world. Explorations in emotions, consciousness, and different ways of being
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What's special about essays, and why I can't leave Twitter (opens the original)
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Cross-posted from Twitter (except this version has footnotes). I woke today to the algorithm being fixed: no AI slop, celebrity news, or ragebait. It’s just like old times and my mutuals are celebrating like the Knicks just won. I don’t know if the changes will hold, but here are my thoughts.Twitter being bad for a while had a reverse-pandemic effect — the toxicity of the feed forced us to spend more time offline reading books, hanging out with friends, and diversifying interests, and now that i
Celebrating a little milestone (opens the original)
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This morning, I got an automated email telling me I made my first $1,000 on Substack, which I could not believe. Three months ago, I wasn’t sure if anyone would pay for my writing, and now people are doing just that. Most of them are friends who have, at one point or another, been subjected to my long rants on writing. They tend to like my writing between a medium amount and a good deal, and support me because they know I’m on some new bullshit and I won’t stop until I get what I want and they’d
June 2026: "To learn about the world" (opens the original)
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Monthly post for paid subscribers. Experimenting with a shorter, combined reflection focusing less on process notes and more on high-level learnings to leave more time for writing.This Month’s WritingMay’s post took everything out of me leaving June with scraps. I wouldn’t call it a vulnerability hangover per se, but I dove so deep into personal material for that one that it was extremely inward even for me. After that I wanted to do something different.
Plenty of characters (opens the original)
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