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Feb 6, 2024 | 
lkennedy.substack.com | Laura Kennedy
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
lkennedy.substack.com | Laura Kennedy
You’ll find a variety of writing here at Peak Notions. This column is a more personal one, looking at my decision to make a big life change. If Peak Notions has value for you and if you’d like to help me to do and create more here, please consider a paid subscription if you can. This will give you full archive access, audio versions of all the writing, bonus content and access to the PN Book Club and weekly Substack App chat.
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Oct 29, 2023 | 
lkennedy.substack.com | Laura Kennedy
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
lkennedy.substack.com | Laura Kennedy
“…instinct also is… knowledge at a distance. It has the same relation to intelligence that vision has to touch.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
lkennedy.substack.com | Laura Kennedy
Welcome to the influx of new Peak Notions subscribers. I’m so glad you’re here! I’ve almost finished a new column on ‘gut instinct’, what it is and why we shouldn’t necessarily take it at face value. While it’s almost ready, I know it can be better with a bit more work, so I’ll have it for you soon. In the meantime, I wanted to share this essay on non-conformity, postcolonial identity and self-image.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
on.substack.com | Laura Kennedy |Farrah Storr |Tom Cox |Mike Sowden
The Grow interview series is designed to share the nuts and bolts of how writers have gone independent and grown their audiences on Substack. It has been lightly edited for length and clarity. We invited , who writes the publication , to share insights on how she moved from Patreon to Substack and went on to earn a steady income that’s more than any newspaper column she’d written, affording her the opportunity to move halfway around the world.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
lkennedy.substack.com | Laura Kennedy
"I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.”— William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene IIMy brain enjoys a good night mutiny, but whose doesn’t? As I attempt to settle down and submit my consciousness to oblivion, it will resist as though it can’t tell the difference between sleep and death.
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Aug 1, 2023 | 
lkennedy.substack.com | Laura Kennedy
"It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.”-P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the MorningWe’re sitting cross-legged on the floor of the unfurnished apartment we’ve been renting while waiting for the visas to arrive.
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Jul 18, 2023 | 
on.substack.com | Emily Rhodes |Emma Straub |Roxane Gay |Laura Kennedy
For more than a decade, ’s book club has been meeting atop London’s Hampstead Heath—a wild open parkland in the north of the city—to walk and talk about books. In July 2020, as in-person meets started up again after the U.K.’s first lockdown, Emily launched on Substack and began combining the Sunday walking club with Monday Zoom calls. “London is such an international place, and people had moved away, but now suddenly they could reconnect to the group,” Emily says about the shift to Substack.
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Jul 16, 2023 | 
lkennedy.substack.com | Laura Kennedy
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