Alix
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Creativity fuels life. Writer at Breaking Through Creative Blocks, a newsletter about getting unstuck and doing work that makes us feel alive.
Alix
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nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know…nothing ever really attacks us except our own confusion. perhaps there is no solid obstacle except our own need to protect ourselves from being touched. maybe the only enemy is that we don’t like the way reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. but what we find as... See more
Pema Chodron • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Be the Gateway: A Practical Guide to Sharing Your Creative Work and Engaging an Audience
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
Elizabeth Lesser • Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
The most effective way I've found to use Claude to get better at writing:
Paste in a bunch of chapters or articles.
It can accept ~350 pages of input, so go crazy.
Ask it which chapter or article is the best and to explain why it's the best.
Keep asking follow up questions and build a list of all the reasons it's strong. Feel free to add your own.... See more
Paste in a bunch of chapters or articles.
It can accept ~350 pages of input, so go crazy.
Ask it which chapter or article is the best and to explain why it's the best.
Keep asking follow up questions and build a list of all the reasons it's strong. Feel free to add your own.... See more
Nat Eliason • Tweet
AI prompts for writers
Deep is so un-American now, even radical. We live too often like water skeeters on the surface of the pond, dropping down for a quick bite of insect or e-mail. Deep is the realm of soul.
Anne Lamott • Hallelujah Anyway
so tired of headline names. and before i hear “but that’s what gets people to click”, i don’t care. be authentic, be passionate, if you are just doing it for clicks, then i probably don’t want to read it anyway. /rant
“10 things…” sigh.
“5 things…” enough with the lists.
“82,327 things…” ridiculous.
“x that will blow your mind…” rarely.
“tried x and
Here are eight imperatives—all of them drawing strength and sustenance from the humanities:
- We need a way of defining and pursuing progress that doesn’t reduce that concept to something that only comes from a digital device.
- We desperately need access to values and wisdom that aren’t corrupted by the relentless financial metrics and imposed