The one practice I kept was writing. It made the cut because I can’t deny how many good things in my life have come as a result of my putting words out into the world. It also felt like a respite: one area where I wasn’t skeptical of my identity. I’m at my most courageous on the page because interrogating my feelings with words feels justified and

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"I function like a more curated but less efficient version of GPT. My sentences are not generated by A.I., but they are largely the synthesis of my favorite authors."

I enjoy reading human writing because I like getting mad at people. Perhaps the personal quality in writing is a happy accident, and a lot of journalism could be replaced with an

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He says that being a hater, even if you’re actually right, is fundamentally uninteresting, and just being mean about other people’s work, even if you do it privately, doesn’t make you smarter or better. He says that Wyeth’s essential problem is that he doesn’t just have a cop in his head, he has every imagined audience and every response they would... See more