Maybe I'll need to be forgiven for this take. But isn't this what we used to call "a career"? Or has that word and concept—in a world where the wheels of one's best-laid plans may abruptly come off the cart—become too committed-seeming, scary or long-term a concept (like "marriage..." ) to embrace?

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And it's definitely not for the commitment-phobic ;)

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I think the difference is that a career implies you're being paid to do the thing. I'm talking about building a fulfilling practice of writing whether or not you're trying to make it a career.

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"sorry I can't come to your once-in-250-years party. I'll be busy doing something it would actually make much more logical sense to do four days later. I bumped it up on purpose so I could throw it in your face. eat shit forever, amen" there is no hater on earth like a hater from Chicago

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“The alarm was warranted. Everyone on the scene had witnessed the crossing of a crucial line in Donald Trump’s mass-deportation project: ICE had just killed an American citizen on American soil” {gift link} www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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