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new substack post about the feeling that no one will read or care about what you write

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new substack post about the feeling that no one will read or care about what you write

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"As Chiang insists, the point of art (or education, or thinking, or living) is to be confronted with intentionality — with irrefutable proof of subjectivity, the fact that something “derives from … unique life experience and arrives at a particular moment in the life of whoever is seeing [a] work” — and to draw from it the energy to enhance your own, to sustain the will to will. You decide to be present for something, and try to make the effort to come to terms with the presence of another subjectivity that is more than just a projection of your own. That presence of mind is itself thinking, the basic unit of intentionality. Tech companies seems adamant in insisting they can make money by extinguishing it. 

Recht argues that researching to find the accepted solutions to certain problems “is more like learning guitar than it is taking a standardized aptitude test.” If you want to be a musician, you want to know how to play music, not merely what music sounds like. Chiang offers a similar metaphor: “Using ChatGPT to complete assignments is like bringing a forklift into the weight room; you will never improve your cognitive fitness that way.” 

Generative AI, Recht argues, “always seems to provide the minimal effort path to a passing but shitty solution,” which actually seems like a fairly charitable assessment. But it is obviously something that worker-users would employ when they don’t care about what they are asking for or how it is presented, for optimized producers who see research as an obstacle to understanding rather than the essence of it, for people conditioned to be absent at any presumed moment of communion. Generative AI is the quintessence of incuriosity, perfect for those who hate the idea of having to be interested in anything."

Commodified Incuriosity, from Rob Horning's Substack

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Giving out free postcards to the first 30 people who upgrade to a paid subscription on my Substack! I'll be writing a note on the back too. Looking forward to writing about things I care about and sending posts out several times a month. I write about books, writing, social media, urbanism and most anything that interests me, so I hope my writing can offer a wide range of variety for my readers to enjoy

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Wrote about getting back into my writing routine after months of not doing so in my latest Substack post! I talk about shame, morning pages, and one of my favorite books on writing

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Wrote about getting back into my writing routine after months of not doing so in my latest Substack post! I talk about shame, morning pages, and one of my favorite books on writing

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Wrote about getting back into my writing routine after months of not doing so in my latest Substack post! I talk about shame, morning pages, and one of my favorite books on writing

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Wrote about one of my favorite authors in my latest Substack post! I write about books, literature, culture, writing advice and much more coming soon... I'm excited to start sending out posts consistently and hope to start a community on there! If you decide to subscribe, thank you so much!

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“I’m just, you know, kind of happy in the doing of things. Even just having a great cup of coffee is happiness. Getting an idea, or realizing an idea. Working on a painting…working on a piece of sculpture, working on a film. One thing I noticed is that many of us, we do what we call work for a goal. For a result. And in the doing, it’s not that much happiness. And yet that’s our life going by. If you’re transcending every day, building up that happiness, it eventually comes to: it doesn’t matter what your work is. You just get happy in the work. You get happy in the little things and the big things. And if the result isn’t what you dreamed of, it doesn’t kill you, if you enjoyed the doing of it. It’s important that we enjoy the doing of our life.”

— David Lynch

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Wrote about one of my favorite authors in my latest Substack post! I write about books, literature, culture, writing advice and much more coming soon... I'm excited to start sending out posts consistently and hope to start a community on there! If you decide to subscribe, thank you so much!

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Wrote about one of my favorite authors in my latest Substack post! I write about books, literature, culture, writing advice and much more coming soon... I'm excited to start sending out posts consistently and hope to start a community on there! If you decide to subscribe, thank you so much!

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We open each meeting by asking a simple question: What is keeping you alive today? This allows us to revel in the sometimes small motions that get us to the Next Thing. Yes, I did not want to get out of bed this morning, but there was one single long shard of sunlight that stumbled in through a tear in my curtains, and the warmth of it hitting my arm got me to that first hour of living. There was my dog, who, on the mornings I do not want to get out of bed, will rest silently at my feet and wait for me to slowly emerge from under the covers, and seeing her reminds me that I do, in fact, have only one lifetime in which I can love this animal. As far as I know, we will love each other only here, for a while, and that is worth seeing what I can make out of a few hours, even when I’m wrecked with despair.

Hanif Abdurraqib, In Defense of Despair

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what Work is the most important? the work you have to do next. narrow the scope of focus down to that singular glittering point.

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Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin

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btw you will miss this in 5 or 10 years. memory will smooth these circumstances down like a river stone, and you will find yourself longing for a shade of light or a moment of this particular innocence. you don't know about what happens next, and one day that will be the most alluring thing of all. don't leave it all for nostalgia. have a nice night now, whatever night it happens to be.