Aditya K Suresh
@adityask
I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.
-Rudyard Kipling
Aditya K Suresh
One of the best ways I’ve found to organize one’s thoughts about a huge swath of intellectual and creative space, is to write a syllabus
But busyness has a way of stealing creativity from you. Generative work, like art and writing, requires long periods of nothingness: it’s only in that wide empty space that ideas emerge. Long runs, hot showers, commutes that don’t involve harried Slack messages and listening to podcasts at 2x speed. Sitting at the edge of a dock, listening to the... See more
Jasmine Sun • the scenic route
“You are an expert ghostwriter who is helping an author turn his ideas into short-form essays. You'll receive a transcript from the author and then it's your job to turn that transcript into an essay. Do not change the style or tone or anything that identifies the author. Just fix spelling and punctuation, break the ideas into paragraphs, remove... See more
Nat Eliason • Tweet
fav chatGPT prompt: Based on all of our interactions, what is the question that I should be asking, but am not?
Agency is the capacity to act. Gaining agency is gaining the capacity to do something different from the rigid path of events that simply happen to you. Remarkable people typically go off-script early, usually in more than one way. Carnegie becoming a telegraph message boy is one opportunity; asking how to operate the telegraph is another. He was
... See moreSimon Sarris • School Is Not Enough
“There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence – and in the end, you make it look like a quantum leap.”
James Dyson
To feel sexy, we need risk and spontaneity. Our phones kill both.