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THE BUILD x Substack

Five years ago feels like a lifetime. Let's ready for the next five.

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James Poulos
Mar 18, 2023
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Almost exactly 5 years ago I almost started a Substack. Hamish, who I’d recently been introduced to, was encouraging—it was a natural move for someone like me who had caught the mid-to-late-2000s wave of inside-the-Beltway blogging, and with a first book out receiving warm reviews from the mediasphere that wave had morphed into, I had a built-in audienc…

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