I don’t stop often to comment but now’s a great time to do so. Thanks Ted for all your great writing. I look forward to it and know I am always in for something that will make me think.
Wow! This map is the map to the hidden treasure of your Substack - thank you! As the mother of a musician, your writing has given me much insight - thank you.
I love music, have spent, or misspent, years playing professionally, but I also had to have a real job. It's a tough business, and it's even tougher when one has more enthusiasm than talent. That's me! I also work sawing wood, large trees and so on, and running power tools to make wooden objects.
I started going deaf a few years ago, or maybe more than a few, but I compensated by reading lips. Then I started learning American Sign Language, and now I pay close attention to how people use their hands when they are speaking. I watched your Beato interview and I couldn't figure out your gestures - sure, there are Italian roots there (Italy is a great place to watch people gesture as they speak - you don't have to know even a bit of Italian to get the message!), but there was something else going on.
Then I remembered that you are a jazz pianist. Well, that explains a lot. Not all of it, mind you, but I will figure it out, eventually, perhaps when we meet face-to-face. Insert smiley face emoji here.
Anyway, I bought hearing aids and what can I tell you - cicadas are loud!
Now I will go back and click on the links in this post - your writing is brilliant and inspiring. Thanks for letting us tag along in your wake.
Great map! Good to have a link to use as a 'Ted Started Pack' rather than sending my friends random quotes of yours across different articles. Great writer, thank you for all that you do.
New subcriber! I am here after enjoying your refreshing interview with Rick Beato. Rick's awesome btw. I was captivated by the way you spoke. People are hungry for Truth and cultural knowledge that has substance. I am personally bored of watching our world, our culture stagnate. I am bored of reading about how everything is collapsing due to the dumbing down of society. Thank you for being brave to speak the truth in a time where so many are cowards. Your humor helps too. ✌️💜🎼🎸🎧🎹
Fantastic! I was looking for a blueprint to follow for my own Substack expansion and here you provided a map. This is a much better journey to pursue. Thanks for all your tangents!
Ted, I need one more bit in your map. I swear I recently read a post by you about your ideas on how a new kind of university should be structured. I’ve looked for it a few times since, and can’t find it. Could you help me find it? (If I misremember and it wasn’t your post, I’m sorry for the goof.)
This sounds like the kind of article I would write. But I don't think I did. The closest thing I've written to the subject is about the crisis in the humanities. But I doubt that is the article you read. https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-real-crisis-in-humanities-isnt
As I explained here, most of the articles are free but some are for premium subscribers. The comments are only open on free articles. That has always been the case here from the very beginning. I make no apologies for charging for what I do.
I'm aware of the premium subscription and the free articles but the post was about favorite quotes. You've published much deeper articles, free and subscription based and this one just seems so laid back.
Unexpected that it's behind a paywall of all things for posting your favorite quotes.
I would like to do the subscription-based but I cannot have Auto renewal, so that stops me from doing so.
I don’t stop often to comment but now’s a great time to do so. Thanks Ted for all your great writing. I look forward to it and know I am always in for something that will make me think.
Wow! This map is the map to the hidden treasure of your Substack - thank you! As the mother of a musician, your writing has given me much insight - thank you.
If it ain't broken then don't fix it. By that I mean The Honest Broker, not the media industry, which is very broken.
"I guess I’ll just keep acting as if this is an intimate conversation among friends." The BEST advice, and it comes across in your writing. Thank you!
Thanks for this explainer email!
Loving what you are doing, Ted. You (and Rick B) are vox populi we so very much need. Keep on keepin’ on…
I love music, have spent, or misspent, years playing professionally, but I also had to have a real job. It's a tough business, and it's even tougher when one has more enthusiasm than talent. That's me! I also work sawing wood, large trees and so on, and running power tools to make wooden objects.
I started going deaf a few years ago, or maybe more than a few, but I compensated by reading lips. Then I started learning American Sign Language, and now I pay close attention to how people use their hands when they are speaking. I watched your Beato interview and I couldn't figure out your gestures - sure, there are Italian roots there (Italy is a great place to watch people gesture as they speak - you don't have to know even a bit of Italian to get the message!), but there was something else going on.
Then I remembered that you are a jazz pianist. Well, that explains a lot. Not all of it, mind you, but I will figure it out, eventually, perhaps when we meet face-to-face. Insert smiley face emoji here.
Anyway, I bought hearing aids and what can I tell you - cicadas are loud!
Now I will go back and click on the links in this post - your writing is brilliant and inspiring. Thanks for letting us tag along in your wake.
Congrats! 🎉You’re a success story in the power of finding one’s unique writing voice and then using it for the greater good. Truly.
Now I must delve into your Eva Cassidy & Nick Drake articles!! 🎶
Met you with the First Rick Beato interview and have been a subscriber since. Loved the new Beato interview, you gave me a lot to think about!
I’m going to have to raid the vault and read some earlier works!!
Great map! Good to have a link to use as a 'Ted Started Pack' rather than sending my friends random quotes of yours across different articles. Great writer, thank you for all that you do.
"I guess I’ll just keep acting as if this is an intimate conversation among friends."
Please do! Thanks. 🙏
New subcriber! I am here after enjoying your refreshing interview with Rick Beato. Rick's awesome btw. I was captivated by the way you spoke. People are hungry for Truth and cultural knowledge that has substance. I am personally bored of watching our world, our culture stagnate. I am bored of reading about how everything is collapsing due to the dumbing down of society. Thank you for being brave to speak the truth in a time where so many are cowards. Your humor helps too. ✌️💜🎼🎸🎧🎹
Little late here, I actually took a couple of weeks from my enormous collection of PTO hours.
Ted states: "I guess I’ll just keep acting as if this is an intimate conversation among friends."
This, in my opinion, is why Ted is so successful. And I expect that he'll be resolute in following his own advice.
Fantastic! I was looking for a blueprint to follow for my own Substack expansion and here you provided a map. This is a much better journey to pursue. Thanks for all your tangents!
Ted, I need one more bit in your map. I swear I recently read a post by you about your ideas on how a new kind of university should be structured. I’ve looked for it a few times since, and can’t find it. Could you help me find it? (If I misremember and it wasn’t your post, I’m sorry for the goof.)
This sounds like the kind of article I would write. But I don't think I did. The closest thing I've written to the subject is about the crisis in the humanities. But I doubt that is the article you read. https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-real-crisis-in-humanities-isnt
Why is there a paywall for making comments on your most recent post, "Favorite Quotes"? Really?
As I explained here, most of the articles are free but some are for premium subscribers. The comments are only open on free articles. That has always been the case here from the very beginning. I make no apologies for charging for what I do.
I'm aware of the premium subscription and the free articles but the post was about favorite quotes. You've published much deeper articles, free and subscription based and this one just seems so laid back.
Unexpected that it's behind a paywall of all things for posting your favorite quotes.
I would like to do the subscription-based but I cannot have Auto renewal, so that stops me from doing so.