Justin Mather
- "In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts."
from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
Why a Half a Million Artists left Instagram for Cara Last Week
Artists are leaving Instagram in droves Meta is making it downright near impossible to opt out of having their art be used to train AI
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What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Same day shipping. Buy it without seeing it in person first. Free returns. The speed of commerce quickening at the same pace the cost and quality of the goods are decreasing. And the amount of things we keep buying shows no sign of abating. Amazon is on its way to selling half a trillion dollars worth of goods in America this year. And with new bar
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Different channels for your writing depending on idea maturity
the maturity of the idea (letting weeds grow so they can become flowers) you can have stuff exist (plant seeds) publicly that doesn't blast peoples emails / feeds)
Your confidence with that idea (in the sense of needing feedback gyms, cozy web / safe spaces to develop ideas, getting feedb
People who experience flow describe it as “a state of effortless concentration so deep that they lose their sense of time, of themselves, of their problems,” and their descriptions of the joy of that state are so compelling that Csikszentmihalyi has called it an “optimal experience.” Many activities can induce a sense of flow, from painting to raci
... See morefrom Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman