Molly Simpson
@spagmol
thinker, feeler, third-wheeler
collecting dots here, connecting them there ￬
Molly Simpson
spagmol.substack.com
I used to believe that you should love someone for who they are. I still believe that, but with the caveat that I think that you should also love how they handle things. Is the distinction meaningful? Maybe it’s obvious—as a matchmaker, a lot of people certainly tell me they want to date someone whose judgment they respect. Of course, someone’s
... See moreIt’s flirting with the liminality between the present and the future. I think portals can exist as little hopping moments; I’m in the present, obviously, but I’m also experiencing future realities. How can I use portals as little keys, to bring those two into symbiosis?
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
Well, and threading some of these pieces together here, I mean, in talking about how there isn't a playbook for artists, right? I love how in some ways in this conversation, what you're pointing towards is like, what does nature have to say? Like, what is nature's playbook for creating? Right?
And that's the fallow period. And something, you know,
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But this silly desire to be an exceptional young writer wasn’t egoistic craving. It was a biological obligation. He couldn’t help it. He couldn’t turn it off. Even when he tried not to write, he was writing. He imagined paragraphs in his head, imagined whole novels, composed of sentences that weren’t even made up of words, just the essence of
... See moreWhen you repeatedly prompt an LLM over a long timescale — whether you’re discussing your delusional beliefs, or pursuing a romantic fantasy (“AI girl/boyfriends”) — you are filling it up with your communicative intent. The work that comes out the other side — the transformation of your prompts into a response — is a mirror that you’re holding up to... See more