An independent publication about work, money, culture and health, written for people who are still in the middle of things rather than looking back at them.
It started with a cholesterol result and forty minutes of reading afterwards, all of it either a numbered list or an advert for a supplement. Nothing that treated the reader as someone who had already run a business, raised children, been made redundant, recovered. The assumption underneath most of it was that a certain age arrives and curiosity stops.
So the writing here goes the other way. It follows a real thing, usually something small, and stays with it long enough to find where it gets uncomfortable. Sometimes that produces something useful. Often it just produces a better description of the problem, which I think counts for more than it gets credit for.
Four sections. Play covers culture and the things worth your time. Build covers work, money and the business of making something. Move covers health, without the wellness. Speak covers the conversations worth having and a few that aren't.
Published every week. Free to read, free to subscribe.
A note on AI. Yes, it's used here. It'd be a strange thing to hide on a publication built on honesty, curiosity and calling out bullshit.
It helps with drafting, research and the awkward business of turning an idea into an article. It doesn't decide what The Chapterist thinks. The subjects, the arguments, the jokes and the disagreements are mine. Everything gets argued with, rewritten and signed off by a person.
My spelling has got worse as I've got older. This helps.
The Chapterist