Justin Lancy
@veritrope
A curious animal.
Justin Lancy
justinlancy.com
Our brains are lazy. Instead of creating an original answer, it tries to retrieve an answer that it has already heard or constructed before. And because it’s lazy, it doesn’t check if the answer is true - it just retrieves it for you. The input becomes the output. A child is the most curious person and fastest learner in the world, for they have no... See more
Same as AI?
Claude code
E. L. Doctorow once said that "writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
hope, as Chesterton said, is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
As Molly Ivins put it, freedom fighters don’t always win, but they are always right.
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Goethe said, “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”