On writing
Some people think Stein was lying when she said she wasn’t lesbian. And they are disappointed... See more
Looking for Alice
As Paul Graham observes:
People show much more originality in solving problems than in deciding which problems to solve. Even the smartest can be surprisingly conservative when deciding what to work on. People who’d never dream of being fashionable in any other way get sucked into working on fashionable problems.
Henrik Karlsson • Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
For me, it’s thinking and ideating. These are the activities of my core work. I seek to understand problems better, and develop my and others’ ideas further.
Saying “ideas don’t matter; only shipping products matter” to a product... See more
The merit of ideas and ideation
A blog post is a search query . You write to find your tribe; you write so they will know what kind of fascinating things they should route to your inbox
Henrik Karlsson • A Blog Post Is a Very Long and Complex Search Query to Find Fascinating People and Make Them Route Interesting Stuff to Your Inbox
I think podcasting, like blogging, will become increasingly mainstream. It will be completely normal to have a podcast intended... See more
Small P Podcasting
Very valid point
Michael Dean • Response

Who will teach me to write? a reader wanted to know.
The page, the page, that eternal blankness, the blankness of eternity which you cover slowly, affirming time’s scrawl as a right and your daring as necessity; the page, which you cover woodenly, ruining it, but asserting your freedom and power to act, acknowledging that you ruin everything you
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