Writing
A large percentage of people’s problems in work, love and life are due to some combination of vagueness and passivity. You don’t know what you want to spend your time on; you don’t know what kind of person you really get along with; you don’t know what kind of clothing looks good to you; you don’t know what you value in a city; you don’t know how... See more
Ava • Why You Should Write More
text is the most powerful, useful, effective communication technology ever, period.
graydon2 • Always Bet on Text
The Bell Jar
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Best metaphors and similes you will ever read – and you won’t notice you read them
– Harry Dry
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
Feynman Principle
Rather than finding problems for you to address, take a closer look at your own. What problems have you experienced that you’ve gained clarity into? What are some pressing problems you care deeply about now? Better yet, which problems have you always cared for that give them a timeless quality?
Once you’ve identified these problems, then your job is
... See moreLawrence Yeo • The Three Types of Writing
When you write-to-release, you will end up learning about yourself in the process (which will help to inform the other types of writing I’ll go over). Oftentimes, you don’t know what you’re holding onto until you let it all out, and the great thing about the practice is that all fear of judgment is nullified. There is only honesty, and that purity
... See moreLawrence Yeo • The Three Types of Writing
“I don’t like to write, but I take great pleasure in having written—in having finally made an arrangement that has a certain inevitability, like the solution to a mathematical problem. Perhaps in no other line of work is delayed gratification so delayed.”
Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
William Zinsser in Writing To Learn
Text is the most efficient communication technology. By orders of magnitude... A t every step of communication technology, textual encoding comes first, everything else after. Because it's vastly cheaper on a symbol-by-symbol basis.