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My convo with Nikita Petrov , writer of the amazing Psychopolitica, started with us both trying to figure out what the hell Substack live even was. Our best guess: a chance meeting in the digital kitchen of Substack, where we talked about everything from our creative struggles to emotional labor i…

Noha asked me not to swear during this because her kids might watch. Not only did I swear, I also told her to tell her kids that I was the Mr. Beast of Substack for some reason. But besides those two ERRORS on my part, the conversation was genuinely so good. You can watch / listen here on Substac…

When I asked Henry Oliver if I could be the next Shakespeare, he said "maybe." Maybe! Not no! So…I’m basically Shakespeare. Hark! Classic Shakespeare stuff right there. Honestly, that’s all I remember from the convo but I fed the transcript into AI and it turned out we talked about a lot of othe…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit botharetrue.substack.com I had Katherine Dee, the writer of default.blog on a stream yesterday and it was great. We basically just hung out and talked about being weird online people. Some stuff that came up: * We both admitted that hav…