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Economy and Ecology both come from the same root, the Greek "oikos," meaning "home" or "household,"

Students are frequently unwilling to rewrite, because rewriting suggests to them that what they wrote the first time is wrong, and they don't like that feeling. But it's not that, it's just that writing is a process and you are cleaning up the language.

It's not that you're changing it: you're doing it better, hitting a higher note or a deeper tone... See more

Creating an alter ego for fantasy-work can be used for good and can be positive. It can also be used for bad. Freud felt this way as well. He felt that alter egos were connected to narcissism in childhood. There is a dark component to alter egos and that’s why fantasy-work should be in dialogue with reality.

Without art, there is no architecture, no fashion, no culinary tradition, no meaningful communication.

We’ve got a once-in-the-history-of-our-species opportunity here. It used to be that our only competitors were made of carbon. Now some of our competitors are made out of silicon. New competition should make us better at competing—this is our chance to be more thoughtful about writing than we’ve ever been before. No system can optimize for... See more