What I like most about this post is that you’ve decided that what you want to do is “get your thoughts and ideas out there”. Not build a creator business. Not maintain a regular publishing cadence to justify payments. Nothing of that.
It’s a massive step towards understanding what YOU want to do and doing it. Kudos.
I will follow along as I do enjoy what you’ve been putting out.
I started my time on Substack and you were one of the first to provide me with guidance on getting started and I will always appreciate that. I'm sad to see you go, especially since I agree with you wholeheartedly. I will continue supporting your work anywhere you take it. (Cannot wait for Certain Fathoms!) Heading to your site now for bookmarking in my ttrpg folder. Cheers!
does the new blog have a newsletter sign up? are you going to port all your email subs over? if not, you lose a reader. in this day and age, if you dont have some way of notifying people, you can't be upset when they dont go to your site of their own volition to see if there's anything new. best of luck!
It has neither a newsletter signup nor will I be porting over subs. It's literally just a reflection of my own notes I take for myself that I'm publishing for public viewing. In that regard, its much less of a "blog" and more of a zettelkasten (read more here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten).
As much as I appreciate your subscription / support, I've realized that trying to maintain subscribers and agonizing over losing them is the opposite of why I'm writing. I want to write to learn, not write to teach - if that makes sense.
And while there's technically an RSS feed you can subscribe to for the site, it's very buggy and I wouldn't recommend doing it.
I certainly don't blame you if you don't want to manually check in on my new site. The current day and age requires a lot from us and we're blasted by content on all sides. All the luck to you.
In a nutshell, as much I as I appreciate you all, my writing from here on out is going to be much more exploratory and literally just a reflection of my own notes I use for myself. Imagine a terrarium where I'm a little worker ant you can look in on from time to time, maybe getting something useful.
I’ve enjoyed your blog for a while, mostly because every post oozes with style and has substance and experience to back it up. Thank you for teaching me something else new today.
New 2026 goal: transcend Substack. It shouldn’t be hard; I barely post on here anyway.
Sorry to see you go Nate. Please keep The Soloist updated on what you’re working on. Love everything you do for the community.
Thanks Patrick, we'll be in touch!
What I like most about this post is that you’ve decided that what you want to do is “get your thoughts and ideas out there”. Not build a creator business. Not maintain a regular publishing cadence to justify payments. Nothing of that.
It’s a massive step towards understanding what YOU want to do and doing it. Kudos.
I will follow along as I do enjoy what you’ve been putting out.
Thanks Andrew - that's the goal! Glad to see it came across.
I started my time on Substack and you were one of the first to provide me with guidance on getting started and I will always appreciate that. I'm sad to see you go, especially since I agree with you wholeheartedly. I will continue supporting your work anywhere you take it. (Cannot wait for Certain Fathoms!) Heading to your site now for bookmarking in my ttrpg folder. Cheers!
It's always good to get a comment from you Jamie, as I do feel like we've had a bit of a rapport. I'll see you around!
Most certainly. Its not a goodbye for me. Just a “see ya later/see ya on the flipside”
does the new blog have a newsletter sign up? are you going to port all your email subs over? if not, you lose a reader. in this day and age, if you dont have some way of notifying people, you can't be upset when they dont go to your site of their own volition to see if there's anything new. best of luck!
It has neither a newsletter signup nor will I be porting over subs. It's literally just a reflection of my own notes I take for myself that I'm publishing for public viewing. In that regard, its much less of a "blog" and more of a zettelkasten (read more here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten).
As much as I appreciate your subscription / support, I've realized that trying to maintain subscribers and agonizing over losing them is the opposite of why I'm writing. I want to write to learn, not write to teach - if that makes sense.
And while there's technically an RSS feed you can subscribe to for the site, it's very buggy and I wouldn't recommend doing it.
I certainly don't blame you if you don't want to manually check in on my new site. The current day and age requires a lot from us and we're blasted by content on all sides. All the luck to you.
Love the blog site! I didn’t even know Obsidian could be used like that. Happy to follow you over there.
Thanks Nerbda! I'll be updating it fairly regularly (likely more regularly than I do even this blog).
Do you plan to set up an rss feed for the site? I’ve been doing my best to get my feed reader maintained with good stuff.
Hello! After some weeks, I've managed to get an RSS feed functioning. Did a couple moves behind the scenes, but it should be operational now!
I don't, at least not until Obsidian fixes their RSS protocol. But I lay out my objective with what my new site is trying to do here: https://natewhittington.com/Blog/Writing+for+the+hell+of+it+(and+for+myself)
In a nutshell, as much I as I appreciate you all, my writing from here on out is going to be much more exploratory and literally just a reflection of my own notes I use for myself. Imagine a terrarium where I'm a little worker ant you can look in on from time to time, maybe getting something useful.
All the best to you mate
Thanks!
I’ve enjoyed your blog for a while, mostly because every post oozes with style and has substance and experience to back it up. Thank you for teaching me something else new today.
New 2026 goal: transcend Substack. It shouldn’t be hard; I barely post on here anyway.
I’ll check out your website posthaste!
Thanks Parker. Looking forward to where the writing takes me next. It'll be very different, but much more mine than it is currently.