Jessie Elland

“What’s behind the back of thought.” She used words to try to reach beyond words, to surpass them. She wrote to destroy words. That’s why she wasn’t interested in her image as a writer.

Every adult senses that their attention is slipping, that their thinking is flattening, that their world is flooded with noise, no neutrality, and that no institution really exists to protect them. Your brain is for sale, my guy - as your attention goes, so does your cognition, so does your sense of depth and certainty.

Confidence, optimism, and... See more

With each additional abstraction from uncertainty, the easier it is to find answers, and the more confident those answers sound. It’s too much work to look in a reference book, so you can just search on Google or Wikipedia—but these draw on reference books, condensing several to assert something even more confidently. Then ChatGPT again makes... See more