A peasant woodland

The more compelling and interesting reason that most writers seek out readers is…we receive our writing as a gift, and so it must be given in turn. We write because something needs to be expressed through us, and only by giving the writing to a reader is that need fulfilled

Love it.

your writing will eventually reach people who don’t understand the context, but will engage with it anyway, and expect you to engage with them in turn.

This is social media. I don’t know how we arrived here, but undergirding pattern is: “Here's a link to something on the web, and here’s a comment box. Everyone weigh in with your opinion.”

We are all, to borrow from Byung-Chul Han, entrepreneurs of ourselves—whether willingly or reluctantly, optimistically or despairingly or, more often than not, all of the above.