Joan Westenberg

For my money, Joan Westenberg has the best long-form blog on the web today. As I write this, I have not yet paid for a subscription, but the sentence telegraphs that I will. Today. Yesterday's post about prediction markets finally pushed me over. I find myself struggling a bit with long-form content. If a YouTube video is more than 12 minutes, I will probably skip it. Especially the political commentary ones, which used to be entertaining but are now merely repetitive. If it's something that I'm trying to learn about, I'll watch it at a faster playback speed, usually 1.5x, though I've been doing some at 2x. It's not hopeless though. I'm reading The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans on my Kindle. I'm doing most of my reading in the afternoon, when I'm less "productive." (Whatever that means in retirement.) It's a very long book, but readable. (I will say that I find some of the praise incongruent with my experience of reading the book. Ostensibly presented chronological order,…