The Joe Rogan,

Logan, Experience.

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What's up Chris? How are you? Good. Let's go. Have you done podcast before? Nothing like this. I've done a few. Yeah. Okay yeah okay cool so tell me first of all tell me what

was the inspiration to start sub stack like how did it how did it come about?

I've always been an avid reader.

My dad was an English teacher growing up.

We had books around the house.

And I've always thought that what you read matters.

Like it shapes who you are. It how you think it creates like who you are as a person and so great

Writing matters a lot right I'm a in my other life I do software. Software is this magical thing where you can

write a piece of code and it does something for a million people. If you write a great essay, a great book, a

great thought, you can

change who a million people are and so great writing is this valuable thing

and when I took a sabbatical from a company that I've done

I was like I should be a writer that would be good like how hard could it be

these guys are doing doing good things I started writing what I thought was going to be

like an essay or a blog post or a screed or something outlining my frustration with the state of the media industry, the state of

incentives on the internet, basically complaining, wah, wah, wah, social media is breaking our brains, you know, this kind of shit.

And I send it to my friend Hamish, who's really a writer,

and he told me, like anybody can complain about this stuff.

You're not as original as you think. All of my friends who are writers know all about this stuff you're not as original as you think all of my friends

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