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Roundabouts and Remi

Timothy Nisly
Feb 27, 2023
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Welcome to our monthly roundup, “the links.”

🕵️ Another Look

A video for As It Were readers

If you found this newsletter after April 11, 2022, then you may have missed In Praise of Roundabouts. That’s most of you, because I had just started.

I revisit this early essay almost a year later to see how it holds up.

Recording a YouTube video is strange. I prefer the control of writing. But control and comfort are not all they’re cracked up to be. I think the video format can bring new readers to the newsletter and resurface old favs.

Watch it here.


🫂 Something to Share

One thing worth sharing. Could be art, music, business—especially when it’s independent or by friends.

Remi Wolf - Live at Electric Lady

Live interpretations are criminally underrated in new music. When an artist kills not just in the studio but live, I’ve got to share.

Remi was one of my top-listened artists in 2022, and even I missed the release of these tracks performed at Electric Lady Studios. I’ve corrected my mistake by listening nonstop in 2023.

Live at Electric Lady: Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube

Got something to plug? Feel free to share what you’re working on in the comments.

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🏌️‍♂️ The Links

This month’s posts and podcasts. Catch what you missed or forward to a friend.

As It Were:

As It Were
First to the Party
I have a favorite new internet trend. Maybe you’ve seen it: calling anyone who disagrees a bot. This one has, at least on my feeds, catapulted to common use. I had a great chuckle at one Twitter user throwing the bot card to flee their back-and-forth with a well-known journalist…
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4 months ago · 7 likes · 3 comments · Timothy Nisly
As It Were
All Things Sweet
Happy Monday 🤝 Friday marked one year since I logged onto Substack and created an account! (It took another six or seven weeks to actually post.) As always, thank you for being here. For those who subscribed in the last two weeks, welcome. I post every Monday at 8AM with the following schedule…
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4 months ago · 10 likes · 2 comments · Timothy Nisly
As It Were
Bad Optics
Three weeks ago, famed YouTuber MrBeast posted a video that went viral, drawing both praise and ire. The video features Jimmy Donaldson, AKA MrBeast, “curing” one-thousand patients of blindness (caused by cataracts) by paying for their operation. “Half of all blindness in the world is people who need a ten-minute surgery,” explains a surgeon in the openi…
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3 months ago · 6 likes · 3 comments · Timothy Nisly

Coming Along Nisly:

Coming Along Nisly
Getting Better While You Sleep
Listen now (56 min) | Subscribe for free to receive new episodes every Saturday. We’re Rich and Tim, two brothers who recently went back to school. Each week we discuss one thing we’re learning, and we invite you to come along with us. Listen on: Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts…
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4 months ago · Timothy Nisly
Coming Along Nisly
Cut My Life Into Pieces
Listen now (68 min) | Subscribe for free to receive new episodes every Saturday. We’re Rich and Tim, two brothers who recently went back to school. Each week we discuss one thing we’re learning, and we invite you to come along with us. Listen on: Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts…
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4 months ago · Timothy Nisly
Coming Along Nisly
Words to Avoid & Conduct in School
Listen now (49 min) | Tim: Write and speak more clearly—instantly—by avoiding these two words. Rich: Conduct disorders that affect children and adolescents, their causes, and dreaming up a solution.Subscribe for free to receive new episodes every Saturday. We’re Rich and Tim, two brothers who recently went back to school. Each week we discuss one thing we’re learning, and we i…
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4 months ago · Timothy Nisly
Coming Along Nisly
Personality Disorders & Deconstruction
Listen now (58 min) | Rich: Three batches of personality disorders Tim: A primer on deconstructionSubscribe for free to receive new episodes every Saturday We’re Rich and Tim, two brothers who recently went back to school. Each week we discuss one thing we’re learning, and we invite you to come along with us…
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3 months ago · Timothy Nisly

Thank you as always! We’ve seen significant growth in the last month. I’m sitting on a subscriber milestone, so if you know someone who’d like the newsletter, send it their way.🫡

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What is “the links”?

A monthly roundup of three parts: another look, something to share, and the links.

There’s no shortage of things to read/watch/listen to. With this roundup, I ease off of sending “more” and highlight work I think you’ll enjoy.

Monthly Schedule

  • 1st Monday: essay

  • 2nd Monday: poem

  • 3rd Monday: essay

  • 4th Monday: the links

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