Jake
@jake
writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
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The Unruly Genius of Joyce Carol Oates
newyorker.com
“I Don’t Think Character Exists Anymore”: A Conversation with Rachel Cusk
newyorker.com
"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
"“When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.”" - Stephen King
On Writing
One of the first things I ask people is “what have you tried?” Would you be surprised to learn that most have tried nothing?
- Paraphrased from a Tweet I saw
A major difference between my friend's team and most teams is that my friend's team was composed of people who had a track record of being highly effective across a variety of contexts. In an earlier job, my friend started a job at a large-ish ($5B/yr revenue) government-run utility company and was immediately assigned a problem that, unbeknownst... See more
Individuals matter
"The other me Demands emergence constantly." - Ray Bradbury
