Jonathan Malesic

Not using this app (much) anymore.
My book, The End of Burnout: at gmail

[Jonathan Malesic @JonMalesic]

Also a reminder that I have one of the best Substacks out there, and it doesn't cost a damn thing to subscribe because, frankly, it isn't worth actual money:
https://t.co/rEIF8OIXdx

[Jonathan Malesic @JonMalesic]

@DangerBrooks I think that, unfortunately, the place for such things is now a personal Substack.

[Jonathan Malesic @JonMalesic]

@CTMathewes @MatthewSitman I know a guy who can be hired to help in just this way...

[Jonathan Malesic @JonMalesic]

@MatthewSitman I would have never guessed you were new to editing! I loved working with you, too. You absolutely brought out my best. 🥲

[Jonathan Malesic @JonMalesic]

Academics tend to think of words as precious -- and their attitude toward writing tends toward the precious. This was absolutely something I had to get over when I started writing for wider audiences. (And Matt, who edited several of my best essays, was a big help.)

[Jonathan Malesic @JonMalesic]

The other big thing I learned -- and I wish I knew how to teach -- was to read my own work through someone else's eyes. Academia does not train you for this. In my experience, only being edited does.

[willy 🌜💧 @willystaley]

This is the Rosetta Stone to Balloon Mindstate: Pundits (not voters) decide the outcome of the election; because of this, any acknowledgement by the media that the race is competitive is effectively (and maybe intentionally) helping Trump. It's very, very stupid, but there it is.

[Jonathan Malesic @JonMalesic]

I wrote about Ed Park's delightful Pulitzer-finalist novel, "Same Bed Different Dreams," which features surely the best novelization of the history of the Buffalo Sabres: the Knoxes, Punch, Tim Horton, Taro, No Goal, etc. #LetsGoBuffalo #Sabres
https://t.co/yoCJy6Hg8I

[Jason King @kingjasone]

Lots of good work coming out of the Center for Catholic Studies @StMarysU Our first lecture is next Wednesday at 7:00 PM, featuring @JonMalesic on burnout. It's part of our fall series on Human Flourishing and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition.

[Jonathan Malesic @JonMalesic]

@huge_reality "When someone shows you who they are (a guy who doesn't play Twilight Struggle), believe them."

[Jonathan Malesic @JonMalesic]

That's right: I haven't posted in a year, and now I post about this. That's how mad I am about people who've made getting mad at the newspaper into a pastime / career / vocation / sixth personality trait.

[Jonathan Malesic @JonMalesic]

Because everyone* in my feed is posting about the "media critics" who spend all day getting mad at the newspaper, I thought I'd share something I wrote Elsewhere about this rampant, ever-spreading problem:

* two guys
https://t.co/lpk3JICYzs

[Jonathan Malesic @JonMalesic]

@DangerBrooks I want to read whatever these guys subscribe to; they're getting perfectly accurate news before anyone else even reports it!

For what it's worth, I wrote about this on Some Other Website a couple weeks ago:
https://t.co/lpk3JICYzs

[Jonathan Malesic @JonMalesic]

@UnderwaterTyper Didn't you do a whole calendar about this?

[Jonathan Malesic @JonMalesic]

@DangerBrooks It's a truly flawless playlist, including the all-time banger "Editors at Rival Outlets Just Do Whatever the Times Is Doing."

[Jonathan Malesic @JonMalesic]

Edith Riches, 13, dropping the quote of the year in this story:

[Ruth Graham @publicroad]

Last month I traveled to a small town in Missouri that has become a pilgrimage site for Catholics all around the country this year. This is a story about bodies, faith, race, traditionalism, miracles & a 95-year-old nun with “a hell of a will.” Gift link: https://t.co/QWndquiZki

[Jonathan Malesic @JonMalesic]

@publicroad “Nestled in the rolling hills 170 miles north of Jasper — site of the infamous Double Deuce bar that Patrick Swayze’s Dalton cleaned up in “Road House” — another Missouri Miracle may be under way…”

[Jonathan Malesic @JonMalesic]

The last thing I published was 1200 words on a small topic I had been thinking about for ten years.

[Elisa Gabbert @egabbert]

Writing is only painful when I haven't had the time to do the pre-thinking. The thinking doesn't need to be done, but maybe 80%? That frees me up to enjoy the last 20% that only happens when I'm actually typing

[Jonathan Malesic @JonMalesic]

This point right here: I think it is only truer today than 10 years ago that academics tend to see structural problems as obviating the individual call to address questions of meaning.

[Jonathan Malesic @JonMalesic]

This essay, from 2013, helped me tremendously at a time when tensions among my job, career, vocation, and life were making me miserable. Rereading it today brought home just how much has changed for me — for the better — in that time.

Worth reading, maybe multiple times:

[Charles Mathewes @CTMathewes]

More positively, esp for academics but actually not ultimately only for academics at all, a long time ago I wrote this piece about thinking about the dimensions of your economic life and how to integrate it in your life as a whole. https://t.co/S0Xk0wEQk0

[Jonathan Malesic @JonMalesic]

@CTMathewes Oh man, thanks for reminding me of the JCVL essay. It was very helpful to me at a time when these things were very unsettled.