Chad Aaron Hall
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Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
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Acker’s approach to writing was just as radical as her approach to paying the rent. Inspired by a poetry class taught by David Antin in which he instructed students to make poems out of snippets of text they copied from library books, Acker started making longer prose works with this same method. She would lift passages from existing books, make
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The reason it would matter is that writing is not just a way to convey ideas, but also a way to have them.
A good writer doesn't just think, and then write down what he thought, as a sort of transcript. A good writer will almost always discover new things in the process of writing. And there is, as far as I know, no substitute for this kind of... See more
A good writer doesn't just think, and then write down what he thought, as a sort of transcript. A good writer will almost always discover new things in the process of writing. And there is, as far as I know, no substitute for this kind of... See more
Paul Graham • The Need to Read
Capture vs process
is one more important
or are they two phases to oscillate between?
As I begin to structure my notes I also have to preserve the utility of the free writing which often yields insights.
The difficult thing here is to handle the exchange between the analytics part of the brain that seeks to organize every detail, and the creative side
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
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New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a Republican, launched a bold occupational licensing reform effort during his annual budget address on Tuesday by promising to sign legislation that broadly recognizes occupational licenses issued by other states.
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In other words, the total amount of wealth the world could actually spend all at once is a lot less than the $454 trillion it has on paper. Selling off many of the world’s assets at once would crash the price of those assets, and a lot of that $454 trillion would just vanish into thin air.
Noah Smith • There's not that much wealth in the world
Slow Media measure themselves in production, appearance and content against high standards of quality and stand out from their fast-paced and short-lived counterparts – by some premium interface or by an aesthetically inspiring design.
Lanre Dahunsi • The Slow Media Manifesto | Lanre Dahunsi
Like most listeners, I turn to my favorite podcasts when I long for a specific vibe:
The age of the parasocial relationship
What It Is by Lynda Barry
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