ATVBT Survey: April

Thank you for everyone who responded to our survey last month! It was lovely for us to hear from you, so we're doing the same for April.

If you enjoy (or hate) the blog, truly the number #1 thing you can do to support (or change) it is to let us know what you think at this 3-question survey, by email or in the comments. Thanks so much for reading, it's truly what keeps us writing.

p.s. if you'd like to comment on any blogpost anonymously, or just don't want to log in, reply by email and we will (usually, at our discretion) add those comments from our side.

p.p.s. some highlights from the March mailbag:

I like most of the 80/20 pieces! Generally I find advice content is limited by the tendency of people write about stuff they're really into, and then they assure you that you really should be trying to maximize results. More people should take the time to explain how to do stuff half-assedly.

In fact, I think a lot of the skill of living well is deciding where to place your limited energies. If I remember college philosophy, that's what Aristotle thought virtue was. So he and I agree, and even if you don't that's two against one.

Various commenters appreciated the brevity/unfinishedness:

I always look forward to your content because I like that it sometimes feels unfinished. It's just ideas or interesting things.

I appreciate that the posts are much more succinct than most substacks I read. Leaves me wanting more, which I consider to be a good thing

I love your shorter posts, and I like your weird shower thoughts.

but we equally appreciate the person who felt the exact opposite:

A lot of your thoughts are interesting but are hard to give the full justice to in the bitesize format. I would be happy with less frequent posts that were more expansive and contemplative