Thoughts I Return To

Great, great question. In the world of writing, everyone wants to succeed immediately and without pain or effort. Really? Or they love to write books about how to write books, rather than actually writing . . . a book that might actually be about something. Bad advice is everywhere. Build a following. Establish a platform. Learn how to scam the sys

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One of the best ways I’ve found to organize one’s thoughts about a huge swath of intellectual and creative space, is to write a syllabus

If you don’t have a good handle on what you want, or even worse, you don’t actually consult it, you could make decisions which are not really in your interests.

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At some point getting what you want is within reach with enough resources and will. The harder thing is to know what is worth wanting

“We attract what we are, not what we want.”

We need people and the world. You can’t just ruminate by yourself, you have to experience things, see how the world reacts around you, how you react.

A tradeoff occurs every time you get feedback. You become slightly more mainstream, slightly more aligned with the zeitgeist. You become marginally more of an exploiter than an explorer , standing on the shoulders of the giants who conceived the paradigm you’re striving to build upon. This is very effective when you want to align your work with oth... See more

Soon, I'll be 60 years old, will I think the world is cold?

Or will I have a lot of children who can hold me?

You won't always get what you strive for, but you will definitely get what you settle for. You won't magically outperform your standards."