"Don't repeat yourself.". We live in an era of minimal, efficient, and robotic prose. But repetition done well brings an intangible magic to your writing. 18 types of repetition in Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut you can try out:

RT @david_perell: The ultimate goal of writing is to create a Reader's Trance. That's when the writing is so captivating that your reader….

RT @david_perell: Is writing quality subjective or objective?. Of course, taste is personal and writers hate rules, but the more you read,….

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RT @JTaylorForeman: OK, 4o can make an image of wine all the way to the brim

RT @jposhaughnessy: Great mega-update from our @osventuresllc Fellow @MichaelDean_0 who is searching for the Ur patterns in Essays and hope….

RT @jposhaughnessy: “If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for….

I'm thrilled to announce my @osventuresllc Fellowship, where I’ll turn my philosophy of craft into code. This year ahead is set up to be a fusion of all my past threads: architecture, technology, and writing. I’ll be mapping patterns, reviewing classic essays, publishing a.

This approach is different from the two ways that musicians or writers typically do covers. 1) By creating a faithful reproduction, you acquire the original author’s voice through osmosis. 2) By creating your own spin, you cultivate your own voice since the form is already.

Here's a “compression cover” of Self-Reliance (1841) by Ralph Waldo Emerson. I picked my favorite 10% of his material, re-arranged it, edited, and added my own connective tissue (the opening phrase is adage from my great grandmother). Notes on process below:

the peak of editing chaos

An essay lets the soul of a memoirist, the rigor of a scholar, and the pen of a poet all co-exist on the same page. Out of all the mediums, it's most able to fuse the best parts of every other genre. It's literature's sponge, the frontier of the written word.

RT @nabeel: In the 90s Wired made these wonderful re-printings of McLuhan that seemed to capture the tone for that age of computing. What….

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