Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Podcast
Notes
Archive
Leaderboard
About
The Importance of Being Average
Success, failure and the freedom to be ordinary.
Dec 1, 2025
•
Sara Eckel
595
118
89
How I'm Staying Sane
For now, anyway.
Nov 14, 2024
•
Sara Eckel
470
74
111
How to Surrender Without Giving Up
Optimism eluded me, but I found something better.
Dec 10, 2024
•
Sara Eckel
96
31
18
The Amateurization of Everything
How I turned my career into a hobby.
Jan 30, 2024
•
Sara Eckel
953
188
160
Wintry Mix
The forecast was bad, but the dog was good.
Jan 15
•
Sara Eckel
25
18
2
Most Popular
View all
The People Who Don't Want You to Sleep
May 16, 2023
•
Sara Eckel
1,946
120
481
The Amateurization of Everything
Jan 30, 2024
•
Sara Eckel
953
188
160
How I'm Staying Sane
Nov 14, 2024
•
Sara Eckel
470
74
111
Why We're Fat
Oct 24, 2023
•
Sara Eckel
263
45
37
Latest
Top
Discussions
The Idea That Helped Me Get Through 2025
And hopefully 2026.
Dec 31, 2025
•
Sara Eckel
46
20
8
Canada
Lessons from the alt-universe next door.
Sep 30, 2025
•
Sara Eckel
49
29
5
On Ambition, Status and the Need to Be Seen
Was shedding all this a sign of personal evolution, or just a cop out?
Aug 25, 2025
•
Sara Eckel
48
29
6
Tax the Rich
A clear, unifying slogan for the Democrats is just sitting there.
Jul 2, 2025
•
Sara Eckel
37
14
6
We're All We've Got
Maybe that's enough.
Jun 16, 2025
•
Sara Eckel
58
4
11
What Makes a Person's Work Valuable?
In "Make Your Own Job," historian Erik Baker shows how entrepreneurialism defines how we value work.
May 13, 2025
•
Sara Eckel
28
2
3
The Four Good Ideas
More thoughts on preserving sanity in crazy times.
Apr 24, 2025
•
Sara Eckel
55
19
11
We Need Some Heroes
The Democratic leadership plays dead while scolding the rest of us to “do something.” What’s a despondent American to do?
Mar 29, 2025
•
Sara Eckel
42
24
11
The Amateurization of Everything: Part 2
More thoughts on what happens when a career becomes a hobby.
Mar 3, 2025
•
Sara Eckel
60
12
9
See all
It's Not Us
The system is crazy. We don't have to be.
Subscribe
Recommendations
View all 36
Substack Writers at Work with Sarah Fay
Sarah Fay, PhD
Oldster Magazine
Sari Botton
Practicing
Lynn Steger Strong
Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain
Cintra Wilson
Changing The Channel with Kirsten Powers
Kirsten Powers
Where else you can find me
saraeckel.com
Bluesky
Facebook
Threads
Twitter
Instagram
This is the place to go for breaking news about my dog.
Skillshare
Take my online essay-writing class
It's Not Us
Subscribe
About
Archive
Recommendations
Sitemap
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts
