words are true witchcraft and wizardry

How choosing the right words can make seemingly impossible outcomes achievable — so effectively, it must be magic.

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I know spells are effectively words but it didn’t hit me at the time so let’s not make it a big deal, please and thank you.

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“but the rockets would not be as fierce if not for [amen] thompson and [tari] eason, a pair of apparitions who don’t guard people so much as haunt their soul and infect their spirit.”

dan favale (@danfavale.bsky.social)

Whenever you hear yourself saying “I have to…”, change it to “I choose to…” Remembering you have choices does wonders for your well-being.
Julie Zuho

Historically, software has treated the words on your screen as a black box. To the computer, it’s just an arbitrary sequence of characters. But of course getting the right letters in the right order is all that matters.

We named “Lex” after “lexicon,” because we don’t treat your writing as just an arbitrary string of letters. Our goal is to build a... See more

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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

– John Steinbeck

the power of words: warm outbound > cold outreach

this made me think of that

The word “practice” is such a wonderful word because it has time built into it: you can only practice if you practice

“Strategy is accepting that you are doing something better than the other and the other is doing something better than you. You have to pick your fight.”

- Axel Dumas, CEO of Hermes

I feel such intense gratitude when I read a book by someone who, for a brief moment, makes me feel less alone in the world and makes these complicated things in my brain feel a little easier to understand.

Kevin Wilson • On What Makes a Good Writer with Kevin Wilson

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so much of language is like this, similar words used in different context accumulate different meanings https://t.co/xCngrIeHjq

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