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everyone should start a blog (yes, including you) - by maja

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why sharing your thoughts online is a secret life-expanding technology

Ever since starting mine, I’ve become that obnoxious friend who says everyone should start a Substack. Partly, it’s selfish: I want to see more of the inner worlds of the people I love. I want to read the way you think. I want your digressions and your particular way of describing a certain kind of afternoon light. But it’s also because starting this Substack has changed me in ways I didn’t fully appreciate until it happened. It’s been one of the most unexpectedly beautiful experiences of the year, one that’s felt both existentially transformative and emotionally intimate. Below I try to…

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