the art of writing

There’s also something to be said about collating and curating in the slow writing process—facts, knowledge, smells, descriptions, stories, passport stamps, headlines—until the collection becomes part of the transformation process. Through acute and critical attention, away from the drive of production, toward the singularity of studying a branch, ... See more

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Hot take: Everyone's missing the big picture on AI writing. I've glimpsed the future of what's really going to happen:

The direction language models indeed prompt you to follow (pun intended) often leads you somewhere boring — to the land of averages

The way I see it, AI is already incredibly good at priming us while we’re writing. It can show us the way towards ideas that are adjacent to those we’re currently exploring, much better than we could see on our own.