writing
“Writing is a tool to reach beyond consensus. Write and write and write until you transcend the cliches and step into undiscovered territory”
Sari Azout • Make Something to Learn More About What's Inside You
“It is simply a fact that most of the time you can’t find the right words till you know exactly what you are saying, but that you can’t know exactly what you are saying till you find just the right words. The consequence is that you must start by writing the wrong meanings in the wrong words” - Peter Elbow, Writing Without Teachers
With Sublime’s ‘Chat’ function, I’ll export particularly big collections to my LLM to kickstart the sense-making process, or when I feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of research it contains.
When I anchored my journal in the external world, the weather, the miles I biked, what I ate that day, the performance anxiety vanished. I stopped trying to sound smart.
But that’s only about a third of what I’ve written. The rest is invisible. Why? Because it’s dirt.
“Dirt” doesn’t mean bad compositions. It means most of my writing is not composition. It’s random thoughts, or notes to myself, or explorations into my interests. My rule is to listen to my brain — if it wants to write nothing but to-do lists for two... See more
“Dirt” doesn’t mean bad compositions. It means most of my writing is not composition. It’s random thoughts, or notes to myself, or explorations into my interests. My rule is to listen to my brain — if it wants to write nothing but to-do lists for two... See more