Having publicly accessible drafts on writing I am working on is helpful because from publishing effect.
[Draft WIP] Evaluating clarity of thinking
Just finished reading Friendly Ambitious Nerd by Visa. Some good stuff, and then some more good stuff, and also patches that felt redundant and scattered. But above all, I really appreciate the direction of Visa’s thoughts and his creative energy. David Perell’s blurb perfectly summarizes this: “I don’t know what he’s up to. But he’s up to something really special. I can confidently say there’s nobody in the world like Visa. He might be the most prolific person on planet Earth.” I felt that his writing embodies this. And it’s also close to how I think about creative process. That is create easily, publish easily, do things with love. I like that Friendly Ambitious Nerd, even though it's a book, feels very light. Like, at the end, Visa adds a note from four hours before deadline, admitting the book's not perfect. A lot of writers experience writer’s block. But isn’t writer’s block just expectations set too high? “Are you still publishing? That’s the litmus test“ Visa writes. And from this uneven, but good good book one direction emerges. And its enclosed in its reverberating title. Friendly ambitious nerd. The image of friendly ambitious nerd defined, in some significant way, a culture of one special part of Twitter.
March 18, 2024
I'm not sure if this is phrased better, or if I've just been exposed to the idea I've been pondering for a while, but when I read this, yeah, it's clear that's how addiction works:
„I’d like to think really long and hard about how popular gaming is with young boys all over the world, and how quick mainstream society has been to dismiss that as frivolous-at-best and soul-destroying at worst. I won’t pretend that it can’t be bad, I’ve personally seen friends go deep into the abyss of gaming-induced hell. But if you ask me, it’s never really the games themselves that are the root of the problem. The deeper issue is almost always that the person had a gaping hole in their lives that gaming filled. That’s an important difference. I think many addictions are like this. (Consider the rat park experiments, where rats in healthy social environments were found to consume less morphine than rats in isolated cages.)” via Are you having fun, son by Visa
March 14, 2024
I want the ideas from Get Over Yourself by Bryan Caplan to keep repeating in my head to calibrate my hunter-gatherer-mammalian-reptilian brain. So I remixed it in a form of a prayer.
February 1, 2024 – March 13, 2024
Still focusing on “I don’t know why but I feel this is the way it is”
March 13, 2024
Remember books? Where authors stretched ideas into 200-800 pages just because humanity got used that medium?
March 13, 2024
From now I aim to include write more personal stuff here. Like I am here, thinking about this things, and processing this thing.
March 13, 2024
– from my forecasts, it's not supposed to be like this – but it is
February 26, 2024