HeyJaredGreen Tea and Post-It Notes
A collection of thoughts about life, literature, and the pursuit of meaning. I'm just here because I like what words do.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Aug 31, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 28, 2026
Latest issues
A Letter to My Teenage Writer Self (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Dear Sixteen-year-old Self,You were so passionate. Yes, that’s the word—though perhaps overused, there’s none more accurate, except perhaps obsessed. Writing now from the other side of thirty with my own home, a husband, and young children, the sheer number of hours you spent pouring words onto a page is nothing short of astonishing: the late nights, the early mornings, the long afternoons in the dog days of summer and the long evenings in the bonechill of winter; I can hardly comprehend that am
Why I No Longer Read [Modern] Fantasy (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I used to be a big fantasy reader. It was almost all I read for a number of years, in fact. I plowed through Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight tomes and all manner of similar sorts of stories; I even went through a period of developing and dabbling in the writing of my own fantasy epics. Let’s just say: I’ve been around the block a bit.Thing is, I can’t do it anymore. If you handed me a Sanderson brick today, I probably couldn’t make it through the first few chapters. In fact, I sold my entire hard
Yes, Literature Is Political--and There's Nothing You Can Do About It (opens the original)
Read excerpt
There is an argument (which I actually support) that “literature should not be political”; rather, it ought to transcend politics and discuss fundamental matters of nature and the human condition. There isn’t really a problem with this perspective; as I said, I agree with it. The problem is with the world we live in, and the world we live in does not allow us to have nice things.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wSW7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.