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I found a career groove that almost satisfies all 5 “salaries:” educational, social, psychological, freedom… the financials aren’t quite there, but they’re getting close. Even though I’m least inclined to treat a passion like a business, it feels important to get this right; it creates a baseline that everything else stems from. If I can make a

So I’ve scored a bunch of essays recently, and I’m wondering how old these writers were when they published them. Is there a correlation between quality and age? Does your work get better or worse as you age?

There was no correlation; the line was totally flat.

The word “hyper-garbage” came up in a writing workshop today. The Internet is full of trash, don’t contribute to it! This is part of a very common (and often vocal) debate: quantity vs. quality. The first error is to think you have to pick a side. You can—and should—do both. The pressure from expecting a masterpiece is real, and so to combat that,

The white rabbit is a symbol to follow your intuition out of a bad place and into an unknown forrest.

95% of what I write doesn’t get sent to my main audience. It just goes onto a corner of my website, and is only sent to a small sub-list of people who opted in for real-time experiments.

complexity : timeless beauty.

We need to redefine complexity because it’s seen as a thing to avoid instead of a thing to chase. Simplicity gets all the attention; and it frames complexity as a sin. I think we’re confusing complexity for convolution (complexity gone wrong). I’d argue that complexity is the holy grail.

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