“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

(John Quincy Adams, via Dense Discovery)

re: generative AI: why should anybody be expected to read something you couldn't be bothered to write?

“Writing is a tool to reach beyond consensus. Write and write and write until you transcend the cliches and step into undiscovered territory”
— Ava via Sari

‘The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.’ by Karen Blixen, writing as Isak Dinesen

The difference between conservatives and liberals

• Conservatives are economic individualists (don’t tax me) and moral collectivists (let’s legislate against immorality)

• Liberals are economic collectivists (NHS) and moral individualists (my body, my rules)

(WAP deck, read in 2021)

“The editor is the professional in the poet.” — Rick Rubin, The Creative Act

“One of my heuristics for growth is to seek out the magicians, and find the magic. Often without noticing, your progress in aspects of life or all of it unconsciously becomes linear. […] The way to extraordinary growth and changes often involves a fundamental ontological or ‘lens’ shift in how you see the world. Magicians are wearing not just bette

Why essays spread

“Every article has thrust and drag. The thrust of a piece is what motivates readers to invest the energy necessary to extract its meaning. It is the reason they click. Drag is everything that makes the reader’s task harder, such as meandering intros, convoluted sentences, abstruse locution and even little things like a missing Oxfo

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