Jonathan Quaade
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Jonathan Quaade
People read nonfiction to learn and to feel. My framework for ensuring a blog post accomplishes both is to start with a first draft that focuses on "novel" ideas.
A novel idea is one that's not just new to the reader, but also significant and not easily intuited. Think of it as new and worthwhile . I've identified five categories:
A novel idea is one that's not just new to the reader, but also significant and not easily intuited. Think of it as new and worthwhile . I've identified five categories:
- Counter-intuitive —
julian.com • Writing Well - Part 1 - What to Write About
The greatest lie I ever told myself was that expertise would set me free. It's a peculiar form of self-deception, this notion that mastery somehow equals liberation. I've spent the better part of my life accumulating knowledge like a magpie hoarding bottle caps, only to discover that knowing exactly what I'm doing has become the intellectual
... See moreThe Taste Economy is the idea that there are essentially only three business moats: proprietary technology, supply chain innovation and taste.
Like Kurosawa said, memory is the source of creation
he image has to be larger than the origin, and I think because we have probably the largest image today, which is the internet, and globalization. What happens is any new work, any image that is smaller than that, it kind of just gets sucked up into that.