Lisa Dunford Dickman

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He said that it’s a very good idea that after you write a little bit, stop and then copy it. Because while you’re copying it, you’re thinking about it, and it’s giving you other ideas. And that’s the way I work. And it’s marvelous, just wonderful, the relationship between working and copying.

Mason Currey • Seek funny leaps

Writing

There is a big difference between the existence of knowledge in some other place and its availability to the right people in the right place at the right time. The crux of the matter is knowing how to integrate and organize fragmented, scattered and thinly spread knowledge.

-Dominique Foray The Economics of Knowledge

Thought provoking

There’s a tremendous friction that arises when you don’t allow yourself to do what you really want to do with your life. You make a lot of halfway decisions to negotiate your competing priorities: what you want, and what you want to want.

Dan Shipper • Every’s Master Plan

Thought provoking

7/23/24

Experience. Don’t observe.

Inhale. Don’t read.

Transfigure. Don’t shift.

Advocate. Don’t ponder.

Prove. Don’t promise.

Encourage. Don’t cut.

Imagine. Don’t worry.

Do. Don’t analyze.

Hear. Don’t listen.

Show. Don’t tell.

Give. Don’t take.

Brian Collins • 101 Design Rules

Thought provoking

It helps people find you. I like every single person I’ve met through my Substack (over the past four years (the workshops have helped a lot!) I would estimate I’ve met 100+ people who first found me through Bookbear Express and I genuinely liked all of them) and I’ve met some of my closest friends through being online.

Ava • Why You Should Write More

Writing

A large percentage of people’s problems in work, love and life are due to some combination of vagueness and passivity. You don’t know what you want to spend your time on; you don’t know what kind of person you really get along with; you don’t know what kind of clothing looks good to you; you don’t know what you value in a city; you don’t know how... See more

Ava • Why You Should Write More

The Why

7/23/24

Every’s Master Plan

Dan Shipper every.to

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WONDER

Instead, I stopped trying to fit myself and Every into an old model of what a founder, software startup, or media company needs to look like. Those are all old ideas, from an older context. They can be useful when needed. But they’re dry and dead.

I’ve just tried to be honest about who I am, what I want, and what I believe to be true about the... See more

Dan Shipper • Every’s Master Plan

The Why

7/23/24