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You realize you've pretty much created a course with nod to history, acknowledging debates along the way. Very cool!

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Yep.

Who needs a university to teach?!?

And there are a lot more to come in the coming weeks...

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Great idea to provide a TOC set of posts. Yes, as good as Substack can be for certain kinds of general theme writers and essayists, they do not support organization of content at all well. Over the last 15 years I have ended up saving various internet content to perhaps over 1000 Word files (partly so I can add my own emphasis or commentary). But my filing system for them, as well as for various bookmarked web links and email folder content is still subject to my personal limitations. I fear that no matter what form of organization one finds or creates, it still requires some level of remembering what was saved where, under what mindset. That is on us, your readers, to sort out. Sometimes it is beneficial to find that I have already saved and read a "new" post I find interesting, again, but that I had forgotten the details or that I had read it previously! [But if you have any suggestions on how to organize things generally, I would welcome that feedback :-) ]

Even though I have been following your Substack for a while now, I still needed reminding about your 4th Key to Progress on industrial export capability. :-(

After you complete this set of TOC postings, I respectfully request that you spend some more time addressing the Upward Mobility aspects of your studies. That is what induced me to start following your posts in the first place. We in the progress'ed West need to spend more time sorting our the merits and limits of various policies and approaches to achieve that, especially with our current (globally wide?) political dichotomies.

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I will be publishing the TOC for the Upward Mobility series this Friday, Dec 20. I actually published a far greater percentage of articles than I thought: over 30 articles.

I will be writing additional articles in the future, but the core content is already there.

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Thanks for the reply.

I have exactly the same problem. Compared to books, Substack is so scattered and unorganized. I am constantly working to make my writing more organized and accessible to new readers. I hope that these TOC posts help.

As for the Upward Mobility series, yes, I intend to keep posting them. They are also in dire need of a TOC, which will be coming soon. I had hoped to post all the Upward Mobility articles by this time, but I keep getting sidetracked by other topics. I also want to limit myself to 5 articles per week so as not to overwhelm my readers, plus I want enough diversity of content each week. I will return to this topic soon.

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