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Good words61

Lovely strings of words from other writers

Brynne Delerson

She’d never been called a nickname before (except in the deep privacy of her own imagination, that is, where she kept a list of suggestions should any

Her father once told her casually that she was built like a plum on toothpicks, and the phrase was at once so cruel and so poetic that it clicked into

“Professors,” Mr. Flogg murmured in a tone recognizable to anyone who has had an essay returned to them covered in red ink.

People called him a genius, but he didn’t see it that way. He certainly didn’t feel superior to anyone. It was only that his brain seemed to operate o

Words in books I had to look up62

A good book is one where I learn at least three new words

Brynne Delerson

saurian

spoor

luteofulvous

He met her fierce gaze, and the air between them grew so charged, Nikola Tesla could have invented three things just by looking at it.

Thought provoking33
Brynne Delerson

Our results show that past formal institutions can leave a long-lasting legacy through cultural norms – even after some are generations of being gover

To do the thing that no one else can do, you have to make the choice that no one else would make. But it can’t be performative—you can’t fake it by ch

When you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, mak

Anchor problems are not only about our current, failed approach. They are really about the fear that, no matter what else we try, that won’t work eith

folk and fairy tales0
Brynne Delerson
Community7
Brynne Delerson

The key is to place your milestones in order from easiest to hardest, so that you are escalating your community member’s skills and autonomy through t

Our research makes one thing clear: power is shifting back to the consumer (the fediverse signals this). Consumers crave community, but on their own t

Creator Mindset5
Brynne Delerson

It’s no coincidence that these parasite platforms are the same companies investing heavily in AI. They must do this because even they understand that

5. Show up in meatspace The final edge we have over language models is that we can prove we're real humans by showing up IRL with our real human bodie

writing1
Brynne Delerson
todayilearned2
Brynne Delerson

eInk (or ePaper) is an alternative display technology that uses physical ink particles to produce images.

(“Did you know that the western border of Texas is closer to California than it is to the eastern border of Texas?”),