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why you shouldn't write that substack essay - by Jaskirat

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you are the one writing it, after all

I enjoy writing. Sometimes maybe too much. I’ve become familiar with a compulsion of mine: I’ll experience something of significance and immediately reach for words. It could be a feeling that has taken hold of me, or a wisdom nugget I wish to preserve. The movement is the same. The journal will be hearing of this. Or the Substack. Or my friend, or just my own internal monologue on a loop. This urge is at its strongest when it comes to insight. Insight arrives in a flash—it expands the world around you and is something I often try to cling to. For a while, my relationship with insight…

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