Gonna do a thread of my favourite things I wrote for my beloved and deceased The Outline.
This one about hope and seeing Iggy on ultrasound screen for the first time (though I did not know he was Iggy at the time. Having said that he did move around on the screen so much they couldn't get all the right measurements so it *was* definitely him) https://theoutline.com/post/6974/having-a-baby-hopepunk?utm_source=contributor_pages
This is the only entirely, objectively correct thing I have ever written, about why Dril should win the Nobel Prize https://theoutline.com/post/7245/give-the-nobel-prize-to-dril?utm_source=contributor_pages
The legendary Wife Guy Piece https://theoutline.com/post/7426/the-wife-guy?utm_source=contributor_pages
Why Nick Kyrgios is the most iconic sports person now living - precisely because he doesn't do everything he can to win https://theoutline.com/post/7666/nick-kyrgios-greatest-mens-tennis-player-alive?utm_source=contributor_pages
I'm proud of this piece because I feel like I did a very good job of navigating a plunge into self-parody which most readers/editors/whatever would have assumed, when they heard what it was about, to be inevitable https://theoutline.com/post/8001/hegel-wife-guy?utm_source=contributor_pages
Apparently this was the most-read piece I did for the site https://theoutline.com/post/8187/billionaires-are-not-people?utm_source=contributor_pages
In conclusion, I spent my time at The Outline attempting to figure out the objective laws behind history - and it's good to know I ultimately succeeded https://theoutline.com/post/8605/wheres-my-elephant-theory-of-history?utm_source=contributor_pages
I will always be incredibly lucky that this got to be my job for a while - there was nowhere else quite like The Outline. It's gone now but my writing won't be - at the very least, there will be plenty of it for subscribers here https://www.patreon.com/TomWhyman
Been reminded of this one as well, about having Iggy baptised, and how God does (or does not) fit into that. His Christening was almost certainly the happiest day of my life. And also one of his godparents edited the piece... https://theoutline.com/post/8274/godparents-with-or-without-god?utm_source=contributor_pages