More people should write (2012)
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More people should write (2012)
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Re: More people should write (2012)
#2Insightful. Too bad the author apparently stopped writing for 10 years now.
Re: More people should write (2012)
#3Insightful. Too bad the author apparently stopped writing for 10 years now.
The author just recently published a nice piece in the New Yorker [1].
1 = https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-consid...
Re: More people should write (2012)
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#5As someone who just started writing regularly a few weeks ago this piece is very encouraging!
I'm very curious if I will be able to make writing a habit. In the past I often quit new behaviors after a few months.
I discovered this quitting behavior a year ago and since I'm aware of it I found a lot of examples where this happened in my past. Now I see everything I start as part of a big experiment to test which things stick. So that I can learn which properties of a habit make it stick with me.
Re: More people should write (2012)
#6the 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
Re: More people should write (2012)
#7the 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
Writing has a double value though, it’s intrinsically valuable to the writer themselves to illicit better thinking. it’s also valuable as form of communication and collaboration.
Re: More people should write (2012)
#8the 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
Are you trying to convince people to spend less time writing? Ive never disagreed with a comment more than this one
Re: More people should write (2012)
#9I love reading and writing. Do you all have any advice for writing more and writing better?
Re: More people should write (2012)
#10I love reading and writing. Do you all have any advice for writing more and writing better?
Depends what kind of writing you want to be better at, but for fiction Stephen King’s ‘On Writing’ is both interesting and useful. As for ‘more’, what’s worked for me is to make a routine for it.