Chad Aaron Hall

1. Do the work required to have an opinion

Resist the temptation to have an opinion on matters that exceed your understanding.

I'm tired of it all. I'm tired of being told these game-changing concepts are going to transform my life, only for them to fade out with nothing more than a whimper. I'm tired of our tech overlords trying to force-feed me my future. I'm tired of the tech industry pivoting every 25 seconds to the new shiny object in the hopes of juicing their stock... See more

Specifically, we show that men who post often on social media are seen as feminine, a phenomenon we refer to as the “frequent-posting femininity stereotype.” We observed this bias in four experiments featuring over 1,300 respondents from the U.S. and U.K.

This explains the modern rise of evil chic and the pattern among woke leftists of cheering on the likes of Hamas, Hezbollah, the psychopathic dictator Vladimir Lenin, or the murderer Luigi Mangione.

Content is the commodification of creativity. It’s the piecemealing and packaging of art so that it can be delivered at regular intervals to satisfy the needs of the attention economy. In an era where media is forever abundant, content is what people create to show and remind others that they exist.

It taught me a lesson too. The difference between a “writer” and “somebody who writes” is the difference between showing up on a schedule and only showing up when you’re inspired. If you insist on always loving the craft, you’ll quit in the face of turmoil.