Sublime

• LLMs are reading companions. When Patel is reading a book, he uses LLMs to understand concepts that he isn’t familiar with, like the nuances of White’s argument about how the stirrup created feudalism. “There's a bunch of stuff that's confusing...on these kinds of questions. The author is dead...but I can always continue the conversation with

I once learned that only three behaviors set literate people apart. The first two are obvious: reading and writing; but the third surprised me: talking about how reading and writing work. Many of the tools came from great talk about the construction of stories and the distillation of meaning.

Un clic sur son blog et j’absorbais bons mots et trouvailles, récupérais un cerveau. Comme un précipité d’intelligence. Il m’a fallu du temps pour établir le lien : l’accès à la connaissance est au cœur des luttes, la formulation même de nos pensées la dernière des libertés. Politique, éducation, recherche... l’élite confisque nos outils. Aaron

every discipline has a literature—a body of good writing that students and teachers can use as a model; writing is learned mainly by imitation. Therefore I decided to look for the literature myself: to collect brief examples of good, accessible writing in a variety of academic disciplines.