Alex Burns
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Alex Burns
I’ve spent decades writing and editing; I know the feeling — of reward and hard-won clarity — that writing produces for me. But if you never build those muscles, will you grasp what’s missing when an L.L.M. delivers a chirpy but shallow reply? What happens to students who’ve never experienced the reward of pressing toward an elusive thought that... See more
nytimes.com • Opinion | the Seductions of A.I. For the Writer’s Mind - The New York Times
Since its founding in 2012, A24 has consistently been on the upswing. The company’s success doesn’t come down to one thing, but a variety of factors: the championing of up-and-coming auteurs (Ari Aster, Greta Gerwig, Robert Eggers, the directorial duo known as the Daniels), which has established the studio as a reliable tastemaker; the execution of... See more
With ‘Civil War,’ A24 Joins the Blockbuster Front Lines
Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine...Fill your website with your work with your ideas and the stuff you care about. Don't let it fall into neglect. Think about it in the long term. Stick with it, maintain it, and let it change you over time.
one of my favorite Ken Liushort stories reflects on the narrator’s attempt to remember his departed wife. He writes:
I can’t remember the dress she wore or what she had bought; I can’t remember what we did for the rest of that afternoon; I can’t re-create the exact timbre of her voice or the precise shapes of her features, the lines at the corners... See more
🌻 statement of purpose
She wasn’t just subverting expectations of which gender or backgrounds are necessary for an elite football analyst; she was reshaping the role such an analyst could have in the culture beyond sports. Mina showed up everywhere. She was featured in GQ , The Washington Post , and Slate ’s advice column, Dear Prudence. She broke down Nicolas Cage’s... See more
Just a moment...
Substack for volcano brains (could be a neat video).
Thinking of your site as a full & adaptable encapsulation of yourself.
The concept of “soft publishing” and “self curating.”
The technicals: sections, tags, home page design.
Forty hour work weeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes—train and sprint, then rest and reassess.
Eric Jorgenson • Sep 4 FIND A POSITION OF LEVERAGE
make websites cool again!!! pt 2. // visual diary/creative inspiration #017:
I think our brains have gotten so used to the homogeneity of the design of platforms - built on efficiency, uniformity, ease… that to see stuff like this, un-templated containers of content, is such a delight and surprise. website as art. art... See more
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