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I love reading and writing. Do you all have any advice for writing more and writing better?
Read and think about you read. You can't get better at writing without reading as much as you can, as widely as you can.
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How do you you do this in practice?
You just gave me a sad idea where there are people who exist to adulthood who have never burned paper or seen it burn first-hand. Like city children who have never seen animals, or lakes or seas or oceans, or never seen the stars, deprived of some deeply human experiences. (I grew up with a log fireplace at home, but I also played with friends using a magnifying glass to concentrate sunlight and ignite paper out on t…
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Read and think about you read. You can't get better at writing without reading as much as you can, as widely as you can.
Possibly the thing I do most is read comments on the internet, I'm not convinced it makes me a better writer, tbh.
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This only follows if the only value/worth you consider is economic value, ie for trade. Which would exclude much of what people value: creativity, scientific knowledge, insights for living, personal growth etc. Obviously those have economic value in certain ways, but it’s not their only value.
Yes, getting better at communicating clearly and effectively is worth the time for social reasons. Aesthetic reasons can be important too.
Maybe there's a website in that - parrot.me where you post and other people reply only with paraphrasing what you said back to you.
The reason I don't write is that I'm unconvinced that a worthwhile number of people will find my writings and actually read them in 2023. I'm fine with doing all my writing on HN. If you look at the comments section of my profile, it might as well be a microblog.
Difference is though that in the HN comments it's someone else who picks the topic and time.
Much as I appreciate the discussion here, occasionally I think there's some value in just doing a writeup on a topic. Or, a memory dump. If for no other reason, than for the therapeutic value of cleaning up the mind... And forcing the random musings that make sense in the head through the filter of written language just to see what actually makes sense.
The only I Spy I know is "I spy with my little eye something beginning with...". Is there another common version where people describe the appearance of the thing instead of the spelling of the name?
The reason I don't write is that I'm unconvinced that a worthwhile number of people will find my writings and actually read them in 2023. I'm fine with doing all my writing on HN. If you look at the comments section of my profile, it might as well be a microblog.
the more people out there that write, the less writtings by people are worth scarcity never creates value, but it always incresases it but also: the more pople have written, the cheaper text and AI bot training become which makes me feel in a funny situation, the more I write, the better I get at it, but it also makes it simpler for AIs bots to learn my style and make it worthless by the inverse-scarcity phenomenon
The reason I don't write is that I'm unconvinced that a worthwhile number of people will find my writings and actually read them in 2023. I'm fine with doing all my writing on HN. If you look at the comments section of my profile, it might as well be a microblog.
The reason I don't write is that I'm unconvinced that a worthwhile number of people will find my writings and actually read them in 2023. I'm fine with doing all my writing on HN. If you look at the comments section of my profile, it might as well be a microblog.
I wonder if there is a way to easily export one's own Hacker News comments. It might be useful for you to back your comments up one day, as there can be value in searching through your past writing and also having a backup (which never hurts).
First, get the user endpoint: .json" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/.json (ex: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/jl.json?print=pre...)
then iterate the "submitted" array and make a request to each ID at the item endpoint: .json" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/.json (ex: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8863.json?print=p...)
Then save each JSON response somewhere. You won't be able to get the content of flagged and banned messages. If you do this more than once you'll also need to keep track of the last ID you downloaded, or the updates endpoint to catch edits, I think, although the readme is a bit vague about how exactly that works.