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Picasso was asked if he knew what a painting was going to look like when he started it. He said, “No, of course not. If I knew, I wouldn’t bother doing it.” Don’t just express yourself. Discover yourself. Create questions, not answers. Explore whatever excites you most. If you’re not excited by it, your audience won’t be either.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Maybe, every introduction is an opportunity to discover yourself?
In some sense, procedures are lists. So we can start by using the cloze-deletion method we used for the ingredient list:
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- Bring to a simmer on low heat (this will take about an hour). We use low heat to produce a bright, clean flavor: at higher temperatures, the stock will both taste and look duller.
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andymatuschak.org • How to Write Good Prompts: Using Spaced Repetition to Create Understanding
When we look for keywords or word groups somehow I’ve got it into my head that it has to be a word already present in the text.
This example highlights why keywords are more than the literal meaning but the semantic meaning.
i’m looking at one of my sideblogs (1000wordvomits) and thinking, it’s interesting how categories evolve over time. I have 879 posts on this blog dating back to 2012, and yet many of the top Tags– ‘directives’, ‘procrastination’, ‘writing’, ‘peopling’, ‘truths’, ‘Questions” – all now feel lifeless and inert to me. But I remember when they felt... See more
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Perhaps the most important insight is this: when we criticize our technology, we’re really criticizing ourselves. And when we try to imagine better systems, we’re really trying to imagine better ways of being human.