Writing
Text can convey ideas with a precisely controlled level of ambiguity and precision, implied context and elaborated content, unmatched by anything else. It is not a coincidence that all of literature and poetry, history and philosophy, mathematics, logic, programming and engineering rely on textual encodings for their ideas.
graydon2 • Always Bet on Text
text is the most powerful, useful, effective communication technology ever, period.
graydon2 • Always Bet on Text
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
Feynman Principle
You need to first review your interests, your curiosities, and your style to determine the foundation of where your stories will come from. Understand who you are before learning what resonates with others.
Lawrence Yeo • The Three Types of Writing
Of course, writing is great for thinking. If you do want to analyze anything from a relationship to a work problem, writing 1000 words about it can really clear your mind
Ava • Why You Should Write More
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The difference between a good adverb and a bad one?
Bad adverbs are implied. Good adverbs twist meaning.
It can be translated. It can be produced and consumed at variable speeds. It is asynchronous. It can be compared, diffed, clustered, corrected, summarized and filtered algorithmically. It permits multiparty editing. It permits branching conversations, lurking, annotation, quoting, reviewing, summarizing, structured responses, exegesis, even fan... See more
graydon2 • Always Bet on Text
Es war ja nicht so, als könnte ich die Schule nicht leiden. Ich ging sogar ganz gerne hin. Wegen der Leute. Was also gewissermaßen erklärte, wofür ich nicht hinging. Mir war nicht klar, wie Alma das machte oder Johann. Ich hatte einfach immer so viele Geschichten und Bilder und Vorstellungen und Träume im Kopf, dass zwischen Brasilien und nun auch
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