I don’t really know what I’m doing with this, so please bear with me.

In the months since leaving the National Post, I’ve felt compelled to write. However, that compulsion has been checked by a lack of confidence and a lack of purpose.

“What do I have to say that’s worth sharing?” is a question my younger self never bothered to ask, but it’s one that has haunted me for the last while. At some point while working in media, writing became “content” to me. And “content” became distasteful in the same way I imagine a hot dog factory worker gagging at the thought of a sweaty bratwurst.

Once you’ve seen how it’s made (let alone participated in its manufacture), it’s no longer appetizing. Stuffing sausage skins full of extremes — tepid praise and polite slander — all in the hope of collecting a precious click is rather unfulfilling. Still, I recognize a thirst for expressing myself and it is not easily quenched by other pursuits.

So, here I am, writing a newsletter for myself, to kind of get a delusional sense of confidence back.

If that’s not a hard sell, I don’t know what is.

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