Susan Cain

Or how are you thinking about Substack writing versus book writing?

I actually, with Substack, I don't, although writing is the central thing that I do there, I don't feel like writing is the primary impetus for why I do it.

I think of it much more as tending to a community.

All my life, I felt really inspired by my grandfather, who was a rabbi who was serving his community till he was 94, like literally till like two weeks before he died.

He was there with them.

And I feel a kind of love for my readers.

So I just wanted to have a way to be kind of more closely connected with them.

So I feel like that's what the sub stack is really about.

And the tricky thing about it is to the extent I actually have three different books that I'm thinking about writing now and files that I add stuff to all the time.

But I spend a lot of time on the sub stack.

And so a lot of my creative energy is going in that direction.

And there's less available for what used to go into book writing.

So that's something I'm trying to figure out.

Do you feel this with all the different projects that you have going?

Yeah.

Well, you know, I just feel the...

poverty of 24 hours in the day, which afflicts everyone.

But I mean, I've always looked to do things that are synergistic or where you get two bites at the same apple on some level.

So you could write the, back in the day, you could write the op-ed, which later would wind up in a talk or in a book.

And I was hoping Substack would be that for me, but it hasn't quite, I just have not been able to spend enough time writing there.