Jake
@jake
writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
jakeweber.net
What project would you be happy to devote 50 years of your life to, despite (or because of) it only being 10% done when you die?
Ht @hannu @gwern and Antoni Gaudi for inspiring the question
michael_nielsenx.comNormalise to persuade.
Matt Webb • Protocol Fiction, Desire, and Belief
from Matt Ward in Fiction as Pedagogic Practice
Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software
Patrick McKenziekalzumeus.com
"The most important is that the writer’s original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader’s. Running a close second was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it’s hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it, and sometimes... See more
"writing fiction in America as we enter the twenty-first century is no job for intellectual cowards. There are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see… or to at least shut up about what you do see that’s different." - Stephen King
