Irrelevant Matters - Summary #2
Preparations complete - the publication is ready to receive more submissions
My current life: eat, sleep, create, exercise, repeat.
It may seem extremely boring, but there is beauty and peace in such repetition - pursuing specific goals.
This Tweet explains my whole life at this moment, and the publication is my muse - a source of inspiration for a creative person.
J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a wonderful line in The Fellowship of the Ring:
“Not all those who wander are lost”
And so I’m not sure if I have been lost. But for sure, I have been wandering for a while in search of inspiration and meaning — as many creators. Yet finally, I found it.
Publication Development
Last week, I did all the necessary preparations for the publication to progress.
I changed the pub’s theme on the Medium desktop homepage
I strengthened the message of Our Purpose
I clarified the message of the Submission Guidelines
I prepared the whole about page on Substack
I prepared a bunch of ideas for this newsletter
And lastly - I prepared a list of writers I'm going to invite to the pub
Preparations complete - the publication is ready to receive submissions.
The current goal for the coming weeks is daily publications in the pub.
What Happened in the Pub?
Yvette Brand published a wonderful story giving us five examples of why we should stop watching the news. And she concluded the story in this way:
“Everybody deserves to live a life in peace and happiness — if the news doesn’t bring you that, it might be time to stop watching it.”
And I absolutely agree with such an approach, especially currently when media have so many topics to dramatize and feed us with negativity.
The second published story in the last week is by me - I got curious about what makes us so different from any other animals and decided to find out. And It turned out we have only one truly unique ability, and surprisingly it's not our mind or intellect but a combination of our mental capability and social nature.
I showed a study - simulation, in which thinking without cultural knowledge solved just 18 problems while thinking + social learning solved 3583 problems.