My 50 Favorite Substack Essays I Wrote the Last 2 Years
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Last year I announced a key evolution in our publishing company, our transition from God of the Desert Books to God of the Desert Digital Media Studios. We will continue to publish, promote, and celebrate books, but they are no longer central to our identity as a media company.
And in the same way, I am pushing this pivot too personally. I am learning how to livestream and will be upping my podcasting game. Writing will always be central to who I am. It was the path I chose for myself in third grade, but we all must evolve.
So one of the things that I’ve chosen to do is to paywall our content after six months, and that includes putting most of our archives now behind the paywall, with the exceptions of key pieces that I still look back on and value as especially important.
Those articles were the company we used to be, this is what we are evolving into now. If you appreciate what we’re doing then please consider a premium subscription:
However, a number of these pieces I still want to make widely available. Here are some of the gems from 2024 and 2025 that will remain free for all:
2024
January
February
March
April
June
July
August
September
October
One of the most important pieces I’ve published on here:
November
December
The wildest and most important piece I’ve published on Substack:
2025
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
October
November
December
2026
OK, I may as well throw in a few of these from the last few months too, they technically count:
January
February
March
Thank you everyone for your continued support. We’ve got a lot of exciting new books and Substack content coming for you this year.