Thank you for reading :)
A sincere gratitude post for Thanksgiving
I’m not doing content today, because I figure nobody is bored at the office reading newsletters while they pretend to work.
But I did want to thank all of you for reading and subscribing to Slow Boring. The whole point of Thanksgiving, beyond the food, is to express gratitude, and I am really just incredibly grateful to have such an amazing audience. I love my job, and I like to flatter myself that I do it well. But it’s impossible to do anything in this line of work without an audience, and it’s an incredible privilege and gift to have an audience that tolerates my foibles and is interested in my ideas.
I hope everyone has an excellent weekend. We’ll be back on Monday.
Without Slow Boring I’d be the most boring guest at cocktail parties. As it is, people think I’m so much more smart than I really am. For this, thank you!
I absolutely am in the office reading newsletters while pretending to work, but I'm in a different country!
I wanted to thank all the people who have made me think and rethink my positions and helped me to understand the most important country in the world - a country that I have never visited (and likely never will), but which has still had a profound effect on my life in many ways.
Also, I wanted to put this at top level: I'm going to try not posting about trans stuff here. I'm not an effective arguer on that point because I'm too emotionally invested and I don't think straight when challenged. I'd appreciate it if other people didn't try to bait me into talking about it and reminded me of this if I do start.