Every collector was someone explicitly asking to be part of something I’d made. It felt exciting.

Will we become so accustomed to speaking with AIs that we begin to interrupt one another more often, or speak less patiently and more forcefully? I can see us having to remind each other, “Hey, I’m not an AI. Don’t talk to me like that.” There are bound to be social and cultural ripple effects.

A good editor is someone who uses deliberate subtraction to actually add life to the ideas, setting, plot, and characters.

The Latin root of the word decision — cis or cid — literally means "to cut" or "to kill."

Becoming an essentialist means making cutting, condensing, and correcting a natural part of our daily routine — making editing a natural ca... See more

you can never create something worth reading unless you are committed to the total destruction of everything that isn’t

We're all technological beings now; it's ingrained into the way we operate. It's almost an extension of our body. And we already know how we want to shape that technology. We just need to be better supported to do so.

"Whether you are an adult or child, your first attempts will often seem unimportant or foolish.

• The open mic night at a nearly empty bar.


• The early blog posts that get ignored.


• The dance recital on a little stage.

Early attempts are easy to dismiss because they don't seem to amount to much. But you have to do the low stakes stuff to prepare for the