what we do here
a stab at it anyhow
This month, Notebook reached ten thousand subscribers. Which is a lot! Privately, I have always considered that number this newsletter’s “level,” or the point at which the number of people interested in what goes on here will stabilize and will neither dramatically rise nor dramatically fall.1 The normal churn of subscribing and unsubscribing will be a steady line.
Anyway, I also thought, OK. Since I have, in theory, reached “the level” of people who like “what we do here,” can I give an account of what it is that we do here?
Maybe, maybe.
If you’ve ever taken a drawing class, the first thing that you will learn, even if you know it in advance, is that you don’t see things. You think you see things, but really, you are filling in gaps with what you assume to be there. To draw, you need to learn how to see what is really there. This experience, of realizing that you aren’t seeing things, is a cliche, but it doesn’t matter, because you will still need to learn how to see all ove…
