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Anticipation IS Culture - by Reggie James

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I’ve been writing a lot more lately. Usually, for me, writing was a “when I feel it I do it”. And I put certain guardrails up, to make sure I wasn’t writing just to write. But these past few issues have been far more about hitting the writing gym than feeling existential dread about releasing an idea. Although, that still exists in plenty. Perhaps it’s the increased pace at Eternal, the shipping cadence that has me feeling a necessary matching of a personal shipping cadence. I wouldn’t be mad at this. I welcome it. I always wondered what it was like to create at feverish pace. As I see with some of peers, and especially with my non-official mentors like Virgil. I love W. David Marx’s book “Status and Cultures”. It was the first book I finished in the year of our Lord 2023. This quote tweet + tweet combo really unlocked a flurry of ramblings by me to my partner last night. And on this cool LA morning, I felt a proper need to get it down on the permanence of Substack pulp. In America, ou

Anticipation IS Culture "Issue": 099 Reggie James Jul 22, 2023 3 Share I’ve been writing a lot more lately. Usually, for me, writing was a “when I feel it I do it”. And I put certain guardrails up, to make sure I wasn’t writing just to write. But these past few issues have been far more about hitting the writing gym than feeling existential dread about releasing an idea. Although, that still exists in plenty. Perhaps it’s the increased pace at Eternal, the shipping cadence that has me feeling a necessary matching of a personal shipping cadence. I wouldn’t be mad at this. I welcome it. I always

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