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Vadik Marmeladov's Codes of Practice: 1. Wear the uniform 2. Think long term (like 30 years from now) 3. Build stories and languages, not things 4. Create your own universe (or join ours) 5. Collect samples 6. Be a sample for somebody else... See more

Hermann Hesse wrote nearly a century ago, “My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action”.

I think that greatness is best described as “invisibility.” Great writing is invisible. It might take you a minute or two to get into the flow, but once you’re reading it, you’re flowing through it and don’t even realize you are reading words. Your mind is hallucinating the story for you, so seamlessly that it feels like you’re imagining it for... See more

What are the kinds of experiences that can kindle a life-altering enchantment?