Justin Mather

I need to remind myself that most people default to curiosity or concern, not criticism.

Reading and storytelling are empathy engines in disguise. They force you to inhabit someone else's inner world—not just understand their actions, but feel how those actions land from their perspective.

There's something profound about how stories work on us. They're not just entertainment or information transfer. They're perspective-shifting

I don’t want my writing to be as disjointed as my thoughts are.

I am a non-linear thinker (ADHD / visual thinker), but at the same time I want to write from a place of feeling/emotion AND I want it to be compelling to the reader.

How do I get it out before I’m distracted by the next thought?

Productivity is so insidious, much akin to riptide. As soon as you dive in, it pulls you deeper in, and despite how hard you try, you're basically swimming in place, tiring yourself out and more likely to drown in it. The more productive I try to be, the more I feel like I'm falling behind.

Some of this can also be attributed to the tools we try to

Style is a series of choices that we make and formula we develop for representing things in a certain way it's the lens through which we look at the world and the rules that we apply when we try to re-create that.

Its important to consider the the appropriate contexts for technologies, asking ourselves if this usage or behavior brings us closer together or further apart. Or if its usage comes at the expense of other's well-being. Tools inevitably change how we interact with the world. We need to build technology that enables experiences and opportunities to

Work backwards from the emotion you're trying to create in the reader. Then let the structure follow.