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Welcome to the Thai Island & Coastal Directory from Thai Island Quest. One of these introductory sections marks the entrance to each of the seven chapters devoted to sub-regions of coastal Thailand. We’ll get into the real meat of the directory later this week, and next, with three monster sections each covering one province. The entire Eastern Gulf chapter — including all four sections — will be accessible to both free and paying subscribers.

Today we’re introducing a new writer dashboard that provides an at-a-glance overview of your publication health, richer post management tools, and a roundup of personalized resources. Because many writers visit the dashboard daily to run their businesses, the redesign aims to center the essential information and actions to help you grow. Visit your dashboard today and see for yourself. Visit your dashboard Many writers building businesses on Substack have asked for a more comprehensive, high-level view of their publication health.

Hello! Sickos Committee Chairman Escalante here for the second installment of The Sickos Sentinel (we think we’ve settled on a name). One thing the Sickos Committee has always struggled to do is to find a way to quantify the term “Sickos” as it applies to college football. Everyone has their own definition - scores, types of plays, weather, weird outcome… ncG1vNJzZmirmZi4sL%2FCqKSmoaSpsqZ60q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnmaPBs7vDrpqippdisabAzJ6pZqyYmnqntdGsq2adppq%2F

A few months ago I had an idea to combine the scouting community's knowledge with analytics to predict the outcomes of draft prospects more accurately. Today I am sharing how the model works and its Top 100 prospects, and will be publishing position breakdowns in the coming days during the lead-up to the draft. There are three primary components to my model: Utilizing scouting information via the consensus big board.

Ramen Stories is a new series where Ramen Beast teams up with Sabukaru, an online magazine from Tokyo that researches and shares Japan’s subcultures. We will be sitting down with key figures of the ramen scene to hear their stories. For the very first edition, the Ramen Beast Team met with SUSURU TV, the biggest ramen YouTuber in Japan. Share SUSURU TV is run by a young Tokyo-based ramen head who calls himself Susuru (the Japanese onomatopoeia for “slurp”).

We are thrilled to share the new features of our newly designed website, which commemorates Airways’ 30th anniversary and continues to power our mission to bring you the latest and most relevant headlines from the aviation industry. In our constant endeavor to enhance your reading experience, we have created a clean website that is, first and foremost, optimized for speed in the front and back end. This is important for readers and writers alike; articles load instantly on any device, and a faster publishing platform allows our team to deliver them as news happens.

Hello readers, and welcome back to the Khazan Kherald. The big update is that I’m now working on a new book about personality change, and I’ll be using this space to provide updates on the new book and insights from my reporting.  The original story, which was published in the March issue of The Atlantic, has the very apt title “I Gave Myself Three Months to Change My Personality.” I found that my personality really did change, but the experiment made me want to dig even deeper into the five traits of personality and how they shift throughout our lives.

Today, we’re launching an iOS app for reading. It’s like your email inbox, but better. For readers, the app brings all your Substack subscriptions together in one venue, giving you a beautiful, focused place to read your favorite writers. Discovery features make it easier to find and fall in love with new writers, and the app brings text, audio, video, and community seamlessly together for the best reading experience on the internet.

I have a confession to make: for as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be smaller. My concerns about my weight have intruded on some of the best moments of my life. And I could tell you precisely what I weighed on any significant occasion: the day I got married, the day I defended my PhD dissertation, the day I gave birth to my daughter. It, and I, has always felt like too much.