Your take on Slow Boring’s evening post
We are expanding our coverage at Slow Boring. We want your take.
You may have noticed that I’ve been experimenting with a few versions of an evening post. We hope it will provide additional content and act as a venue for the daily discussion thread. Before we start our consistent product, I want your input.
Please remember that I’m not Matt! My role here is to provide context for the conversations that happen in the morning posts and in the evening discussion threads. These evening posts are meant to help you form your own opinions, stir up new ideas, and address some of the daily goings-on that Matt cannot possibly cover. There’s a lot happening in this country every day. Let’s talk about it!
Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts in this survey.
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For me, the evening post and Saturday post is for the discussion thread - it's like popping in to your local bar to hang out with the regulars and shoot the shit.
The single most important thing is that these be posted at a consistent and predictable time which is announced in advance.
Yglesias Derangement Syndrome remains fierce: https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-agony-and-the-ecstasy-of-matt
And Matt had a good response as to what this is all about: https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1958481907152245190
"They’re trying to intimidate other young writers into being conformists who don’t ever try to say anything interesting or controversial."
This is why I seek out and read people like Matt, or Nate Silver, or Megan McArdle, or Noah Smith, who are willing to be non-conformist in this regard. Keep up the good work!