Any situation is fixable if you’re good with words because words literally make up the meaning infrastructure, control the traffic of desire, and reorient the posture of someone’s heart which is where the true center of gravity is in a person that makes them want to do anything
In 1960, publisher Bennett Cerf bet Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) $50 that he could not write an entertaining children's book using only 50 different words. Seuss accepted the challenge, crafting Green Eggs and Ham within this strict constraint, which went on to become one of his best-selling books.
cooking up a substack then i realized i was actually making a manifesto.