Michael Brooks

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Good writing is meditative writing. It’s a polished and cohesive train of thought, devoid of superfluous babble. If intrusive thoughts make their way into your writing and you neglect to edit them out, your work will suffer. Quality writing does not arise from a stream of consciousness or absent-mindedness. It’s a practice of meditating on a... See more

Jen Hitze • Attention, Distraction, and Your Responsibility

on writing

Housing Should Be Affordable Except When I Sell My House for a Million Dollars

Devin Wallace mcsweeneys.net

“If you want a new world, start making it right now, in whatever you are doing.”

-Brian Eno.

If you imagine the world you would like to be in and start making objects, systems and collaborations that belong to that world, that world comes into being.

Michael Dean • The Alchemy of the Rewrite

on writing

Writes and Write-Nots

Paul Graham paulgraham.com

ai and on writing

Is writing just writing, or is writing also thinking? In the future, if many of us resort to AI to write, we may be left with people who can’t write at all—which may mean we may lose a generation capable of thinking, too.

A Velocity of Being: Illustrated Letters to Children about Why We Read by 121 of the Most Inspiring Humans in Our World

themarginalian.org

Here’s a short audio reflection from the Waking Up app:

https://dynamic.wakingup.com/moment/MO55B39?share_id=A02967D1&code=SC67B5846

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