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Losing Thinking by Losing Writing

This tweet from Paul Graham a while back gave me the perfect excuse to write about one of my favorite topics, the idea of thinking by writing: Observation suggests that people are switching to using ChatGPT to write things for…

The Asymmetry of Creation

The Asymmetry of Creation
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It takes me, on average, about an hour to write a minute’s worth of blog prose. That is, as most posts here take only 3–4 minutes to read, they correspondingly take about 3–4 hours to write and…

Impressions of the Remarkable 2 Tablet

Impressions of the Remarkable 2 Tablet
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A year or so ago, I transitioned some of my notetaking to simple pen and paper, on the idea that it's an inherently less distracting medium, and that writing stuff down by hand forces more focus and attention…

Review: If You Want to Write

Review: If You Want to Write
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Off of the glowing recommendation in Wise Guy that this is the book to read if you aspire to be an author, I took a quick read of Brenda Ueland's most famous publication If You Want to Write.…

103 Months of Blogging

103 Months of Blogging

Engaging in a little bit of meta-blogging reflection here... It's been 103 months since I've started this blog, on what in retrospect was a valuable creative outlet that counterbalanced a mundane role I had in Google.…