Some of you already found it, of course: my Substack is called Avoidable Contact Forever. The formal launch is tomorrow, with new daily content beginning on Sunday.
Some time this evening, depending on my bulk mail provider’s competence, many of you will be getting a discount offer in your email. The offer is permanent and you can share it with friends if you like. It does not apply to the “Trackday Club”, which is roughly the equivalent of that one gold-plated wrench from Harbor Freight and entitles the subscriber to one coached trackday per year at a place that works for both of us. (Bring your own car, unless you want to drive a Neon without power steering and with 48psi rear tire pressure.)
If you do not get your offer by this time tomorrow, look in the “Promotions” or, maybe, “Spam” folder of your email. If it’s not there, comment below and I will send it to you personally by the end of the night Friday.
I’d like to thank the madmen who figured it out ahead of time and signed up immediately. That’s more than I deserve and I won’t forget.
Click the jump for a detailed explanation of what you’ll get with your subscription.
To start with, I have 1,517 articles that were removed from this site over the years, often at the direct request of an employer. They’re all back. And why not?
Next up, I’ll be republishing older articles that went up elsewhere but for which I happen to retain the rights.
At the same time, I’ll be doing daily long(ish)-forms for two weeks starting on Sunday. After that I will most likely contribute twice a week, or more.
Topics will be to a large extent determined by commenter request and interest.
I know that some subscribers will immediately want to hear all the industry dirty laundry — but I also know that some of you won’t want to read any of that. So there will be a balance.
If you’re on the fence about subscribing, you can sign up for free and get a partial preview of each article over the next two weeks.
A final note: I am absolutely committed to doing this at least until August of 2023 and likely for a long time to come after that. Don’t worry that buying the year in advance will be like when Hearst did a quarterly “R&T” at an outrageous subscription cost that then got merged into a smaller, cheaper “Road&Track” or whatever the heck is going on over there. If you sign up for the year, you will have a chance to read well over 110 original articles during your subscription. That’s a promise, not a threat!