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Opinion | If You Have Something to Say, Then Say It (Published 2021)
October 2024
I'm usually reluctant to make predictions about technology, but I feel fairly confident about this one: in a couple decades there won't be many people who can write.
One of the strangest things you learn if you're a writer is how many people have trouble writing. Doctors know how many people have a mole they're worried about; people who ... See more
I'm usually reluctant to make predictions about technology, but I feel fairly confident about this one: in a couple decades there won't be many people who can write.
One of the strangest things you learn if you're a writer is how many people have trouble writing. Doctors know how many people have a mole they're worried about; people who ... See more
Paul Graham • Writes and Write-Nots
Communication is a moral force.
Nicholas Carr • Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
As we move to a new future where people communicate digitally, writing is going to be more important than ever. The effects of charisma, height, looks and size will not hold the same sway and more attention will be paid to quality of ideas.
Paul Millerd • #100: We Need 100x More Creators Online
what students in turn write for the English teacher is more florid than what they would write for anybody else. They reach for a “literary” style that they think the teacher wants and that they assume is “good English.” But this style is no part of who they are. Nor is it necessarily good English; much of what academics write and read is fuzzy and
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