the art of writing

"In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts."

A THESIS is a unique perspective, anchored in experience and culture, that organizes supporting material, to change someone’s mind . It is singular: the center of the mandala, from which every sentence dances around.

It wasn’t that I didn’t have anything to say, I was just writing to the wrong people about the wrong things.

Writing gave words permanence. Typewriters reduced the friction between having a thought and transferring it onto a page. Computers reduced the cost of editing thoughts after you typed them. The internet made it possible to send your words anywhere, instantly, for zero cost. And now AI will help you think through ideas more completely as you type... See more

Current AI writing tools are a great way to mass produce writing that is intensely mid, and makes you feel dead inside. Can we use AI to help the best writers do better work? I don't know. But let's think about the bottlenecks for good writing.

I think this is the way we’ll use AI to write in the future. We’ll interact with AI in a continuous, back-and-forth way. We’ll write a few sentences, and then we’ll ask it for suggestions. We’ll write a few more sentences, and then we’ll ask it again. We’ll keep going back and forth like this, and over time the AI will get better as it learns more... See more