I wish people spent more time talking about things they love. I wish people would say, "I fucking love this thing that I found, and here's why." And I wish that people reading that would go, "That's cool that you love that. Here's something that I love," instead of going, "Fuck you for loving that thing." I just wish we spent more time talking

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I'm a big fan of using a specific tool to do a specific thing. I don't like to use hybrid tools. I like to have one tool for one job. I do a lot of things manually. There are workflows I've seen where I could automate the process, but I don't like doing that. I prefer doing things as manually as possible. I'd rather copy and paste something from

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I pretty deliberately don't use tools that have AI built into them. I use specific AI tools for specific things. For example, I'm not a big fan of Notion with its built-in AI. I like to draft a piece in Obsidian or IA Writer. A piece I write starts on my Freewrite, which is a smart typewriter without an internet connection. I sit at that writing

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There's an art to trolling. AI won't create music like the 80s indie pop band Beat Happening, who sort of invented twee pop. Their music was so rough and sometimes off-key. They didn't know how to make music; they just made sounds they liked. AI is not going to do that because it makes music that makes sense. AI writes books that make sense. It's

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That's just what it's like being a human sometimes, I think. It's not that you are Zen, and therefore life is good. It's that every day you wake up and you try to be as calm as you can be and face life with the best energy and intentions that you can. Some days you'll get it right, and some days you won't. But you just keep on trying, which is very

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Here's a simple thing you can do when traveling to countries where they don't speak the language. For many years, I gratefully used Google Translate to capture the nuance of what I wanted to say. But it turns out that's not always what you want. I have a little prompt I copy and paste into Claude or Gemini. The prompt is basically: "I'm going to

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To your question about what people starting out can do, I think there has been a crisis in criticism. I mean that in the most expansive way—not just hardcore criticism, but consideration of art. Think about the first album from some little band down the street from me. Who will write a review of that on the internet? No one. It was always hard to

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The thing that worries me, in addition to all the other things that worry me, is that Sam Altman has to pay back a lot of people a lot of money. And that always leads to organizations becoming evil, the way Google did. Watching Google become evil, shutting down companies like mine, doing things that they couldn't possibly be proud of, that's sad.

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I think you should begin by creating a series

of documents in Word or TextEdit and describe your situation in as much detail as you can. Go on for pages. Write a five-page autobiography. Include your resume. Make a different document with all of your health history. Make another document with relationship history for business or personal things

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