the art of writing

Ezra Klein on the dangers of using ChatGPT for serious writing and the importance of intellectual labor in the writing process:

ChatGPT will never tell you is that the problem with what you're doing is that it's the wrong thing entirely chat gpt is always going to give you the answer of how do you tweak how do you rewrite how do you do the thing

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I write.

this hurdle I have to jump over each time I write: How can I say this more crisply? When I write (which is really just to say: when I think) it all boils down to one simple, but utterly excruciating question: What am I really trying to say here?