Tom Beck

@tombeck.eth

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Build in public. Create in private.

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That’s how it always goes.

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you can just not do things

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Bill Watterson, the genius behind Calvin and Hobbes, on creating a meaningful life

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Pretty funny that Andy Warhol said this, and now his apartment costs $22k per month.

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Man, you're making me want to see it, but I'll probably wait until it's on streaming.

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Oh, Farcaster definitely has a trauma/dysfunction type. It often manifests as distraction (from painful thoughts), usually via idealism ("crypto solves this"), over-working ("just keep shipping"), and FOMO ("generational wealth"). A fair few of the users here are "whistling past the graveyard," so to speak.

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Emotional release valve.

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I've found AI to be a terrible "copilot" when it comes to writing, or even editing, but useful as a beta reader or a publicist.

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Thinking about my writing for 2025, I feel ready to go all-in on the "slowcore" approach. It starts by reframing how I write online: - Remove the marketing lens from sharing my work - Share because a piece moves me, not to grow an audience - Choose platforms and methods that feel low-stakes and enjoyable I plan to start with my Substack, "The Unnerving." Pivoting it to a digital (haunted) garden for my creepy stories. An archive of sorts. More to come on that shortly!

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This is a @tombeck.eth appreciation cast. I know I've shared this quote from his insightful piece "Against the Creator Economy" before, but it's really speaking to my struggles behind the scenes lately, so y'all get to see it again. Have I mentioned that every single essay he's published at The Driftless deserves multiple re-reads...? https://paragraph.xyz/@driftless/against-the-creator-economy?referrer=danicaswanson.eth

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Thanks, Danica! What a delightful shoutout. I appreciate you, too! 💜💜💜

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Will check it out!

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Great piece that explains why you should read history. Not to "learn from the past's mistakes" as some tedious people think, but to correct this little quirk of the brain that tends towards doomsdaying. When you read history, you realize, 1) some things are eternal and it’s better to come to terms with them than fret needlessly, 2) almost nothing is eternal, even and especially what was once thought eternal, and that progress is possible, solutions can be found, and we can make things better, and 3) everyone always thinks the world is ending, and they have always been wrong (so far). https://substack.com/home/post/p-153316573

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I knew the answer was probably that book, and I knew it was early 20th century, but I did look up the exact date.

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1909 The publication of Maria Montessori’s first book, Il Metodo della Pedagogia Scientifica applicato all'educazione infantile nelle Case dei Bambini.

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Underserved in the sense that they don’t have a good outlet for that kind of thinking. Fiction is shoved into either genre pulps or literary mags, neither of which is useful for this type of thinking. What I suspect happens today is that they go online to write, but the platforms push them awkwardly into non-fiction which kind of works, but not really.

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Yes, this is interesting! Fiction returning to its oral poetry + ancient theater roots. Another good example is the NoSleep podcast, which was started by a group of Redditors—the digital version of telling scary stories around a campfire.

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Very cool! I’ve been thinking about doing something similar. I’ll check it out!

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