Jake
@jake
writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
jakeweber.net
The appropriate amount of effort is zero
expandingawareness.org
"What a story is “about” is to be found in the curiosity it creates in us, which is a form of caring." - George Saunders
![Thumbnail of [RIDGELINE] Full Days and the Long Walk](https://d1l054mla94ehg.cloudfront.net/media/images/thumbnails/curation/6307caefb2e249acb9e0db2e4cee1d1f/thumbnail.jpg?height=75&dpr=2)
"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
Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."
The alchemy of the rewrite
open.substack.com
