Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
readordieaslave.substack.com
Maybe we’ve realized that the internet simply works better as a fragmented thing.
Noah Smith • The internet wants to be fragmented - by Noah Smith The internet wants to be fragmented
I wanted Perfectly Imperfect to be an antidote to everything getting homogenized by Spotify playlists, Netflix suggestions, and social media, and help people discover new things outside of their bubble. I think there’s a real lack of pure and honest curation from regular human beings, not algorithms, referral-link-laced listicles, or “influencers.”
Grow: How Perfectly Imperfect's snowball growth started with word of ...
For the most part , novelists are trying to convert something present in their consciousness into a story . Yet there is an inevitable gap between the preexisting original and the new shape it is spawning . That creates a dynamic the novelist can use as a kind of lever in the fashioning of his narrative . This is quite a roundabout way to do things... See more
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RSS has been pronounced dead over and over again, yet it is still not dead and I doubt that it ever will be. In fact, it is witnessing a little comeback from time to time. Personally, I have started to use it more regularly again and others have, too. RSS is a great way to follow the people whose posts, ideas, and opinions matter to you.
Matthias Ott • Into the Personal-Website-Verse
The problem with contemporary fiction isn’t that so much of it has such overt politics, it’s that the politics are so silly and shallow.
It's okay to take a book seriously
The cliché is to have a character inform another character with an info dump or a quote and have the other character react to hearing it as if they are hearing it for the first time or learning something. What is more interesting is to have the second character already know what the first person tells them. This imbues the second character with
... See more“Better note-taking” misses the point; what matters is “better thinking”
Lots of people write about solutions to the problem that Note-writing practices are generally ineffective. The vast majority of that writing fixates on a myopic, “lifehacking”-type frame, focused on answering questions like: “how should I organize my notes?”, “what kind of... See more
Lots of people write about solutions to the problem that Note-writing practices are generally ineffective. The vast majority of that writing fixates on a myopic, “lifehacking”-type frame, focused on answering questions like: “how should I organize my notes?”, “what kind of... See more
Andy • §Note-writing systems
