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alex
No Evidence of Disease (Idle Words)
idlewords.com
peak writing
the best argument for building in public:
what is ordinary to you about your product is unknown to the customer and if they knew would marvel them.
slop is the defining cultural export of the next decade.
the industrialization of writing via LLMs will turn all writing into slop in the same way the industrialization of farming turned our food supply into slop. total slop.
your only hope is to find the old, the durable
Will Manidisx.com/// 100 QUESTIONS /// to gain clarity via Alex Morris:
Why are we doing this?
Ask that of yourself and the team with regularity.
What’s the simplest explanation?
What reaction should all the creative achieve?
What’s your most controversial opinion?
What little frictions exist that might bleed out the work if allowed to compound?
Are you solving a
Here’s an example of some openings I use in my newsletters. Feel free to steal / mad-libs at will.
Hi, I’m Craig Mod and you’ve signed up for Humidity Monthly, a monthly newsletter on all things humid. Just kidding. (Although I could very easily write such a thing.) You’ve signed up for the Roden newsletter, which has no explicit theme and threatens... See more
Hi, I’m Craig Mod and you’ve signed up for Humidity Monthly, a monthly newsletter on all things humid. Just kidding. (Although I could very easily write such a thing.) You’ve signed up for the Roden newsletter, which has no explicit theme and threatens... See more
