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
peacelovedivine.substack.com
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
erin glasstwitter.comDeep 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
“My dear friend, you are on safe ground. Everything is okay now. Why do you continue to suffer? Don’t go back to the past. It’s only a ghost; it’s unreal.” And whenever we recognize that these are only movies and pictures, not reality, we are free. That is the practice of mindfulness." (Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear)
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
When you slow down and really break a topic down, you start to realize there isn't enough clarity in saying, "I want to write about X." And the reason so many writers sit down to write, only to give up 5 minutes later, is because this is the first BIG realization they have to confront. They thought they knew what they wanted to write about, only to... See more
ship30for30.com • How to Start Writing Online: The Ship 30 for 30 Ultimate Guide
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