What do you value?
To keep going, we need your help
Happy Sunday, Ink readers!
Today, I wanted to ask you: What do you value? What kind of reporting and analysis is meaningful to you? What is the kind of work you want to see more of, to spread further and wider? And if that is the kind of work we do, will you help us go another month, another year, by subscribing?
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When I started The Ink nearly six years ago, I thought it as a personal project: a way of connecting to people who had found me through words written or spoken, a way of sharing ideas and people worth knowing.
Six years later, it’s hard to fathom how much has changed. And today, this once-Little Engine That Could newsletter, and an archipelago of newsletters like it, have assumed a new significance.
What I didn’t understand back then that I see more clearly now is that we are living through a media renaissance. The old sources of trust and authority are crumbling, in some ways because of forces not of their making, and in other ways because of their own frailties and refusals to confront the reality of now.
I believe newsletters like this one are going to be a critical part of the infrastructure of reality in the era ahead. And today I want to invite you to help build it with me.