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your Tolan understands the deeper context – that you're asking for help with biology homework not just because it’s a hard class, but because your dad is putting a ton of pressure on you to go to medical school, making every bio quiz feel like a referendum on your future.
Quinten Farmer • Introducing Tolan | Tolans.com
This AI boom has set off an existential crisis in me.
Some background: I’ve been teaching writing for the past six years. In that time, I developed frameworks for how to write well and a reputation as a good teacher to learn from. Partially because of the AI wave, I decided to stop teaching. It has only been four months since I shut down my busine... See more
Be as intentional about your pricing as you are with your design process, your GitHub repository, the clothes you wear to that meeting, your Photoshop layers, and every other part of your business. You’ve already proven that you’re worth every penny you believe you are. Now you know how to go out there and ask for it.
Pricing Design — A book by Dan Mall
Dan seamlessly integrates technical terms like GitHub and Photoshop layers into his prose. While technical terminology often creates distance in writing, his approach incorporates these terms as natural elements of the narrative language
I like writing that is unsummarizable, a kernel that cannot be condensed, that must be uttered exactly as it is.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
In the Field Guide, we talk about them as ghosts of unrealized futures — shadows of possibility that haunt the edges of what is.
If you're the type of person who wants to write more, having a practice of tweeting regularly can be a great way of generating essay ideas
. Tweeting spawns a mental process of the type "generate things to tweet" -- it serves as a wick for ideas -- and sometimes these ideas don't fit cleanly into Twitter or are interesting enough that you want to p... See more
. Tweeting spawns a mental process of the type "generate things to tweet" -- it serves as a wick for ideas -- and sometimes these ideas don't fit cleanly into Twitter or are interesting enough that you want to p... See more