on writing
cafes really should have a ‘newsletter of the week’ noticeboard because half the people in them are probably writing substacks
olivia rafferty on Substack
Takeaways from Jerry Seinfeld on Tim Ferriss:
To survive in comedy you have to be a writer
“As any writer can tell you it’s 95% re-write”
“I think I could solve just about anyone’s life, I don’t care what you do, with weight training and transcendental meditation” Jerry Seinfeld
“If you could take your experiences and ask to trade them in, the last
honestly? writing is cardio.
> Comfort is comfortable, writing is uncomfortable (mentally and physically) and to write a lot for a long stretch of time is like being the world’s least coordinated endurance athlete.
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