TLDR:
Finished my PhD in 2014
Was a professor of Political Science for 5 years
Quit to pioneer a new business model as a full-time independent scholar on the internet (took another 5 years)
The result is this newsletter (and some other things)
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I study the books and lives of the wildest thinkers in history
I share the ups and downs of my own indie scholar hustle
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