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What time does the bus come?
What time does the bus come?
“You’ve written the story in a logical forward timeline“ agent said. “You instead need to write it about the feelings you were having. Organize it that way. Each chapter does not have to follow the previous one in time.
·blog.aweissman.com·
What time does the bus come?
Slate Star Clusterfuck
Slate Star Clusterfuck
I still believe Balaji is frighteningly intelligent, but I would vastly prefer that he use those powers for good than, well, whatever this is. ​ They do not sit around thinking about how they’re going to “get” people they write about, and when subjects think they do, it’s more a reflection of the subject’s self-perception (or self-importance) and, sometimes, a sprinkling of unadulterated narcissism. But mostly, I want them to be more rigorous: to acknowledge that ideas are meaningless in a vacuum that does not include real world material conditions, and that people pursuing innovation are not the only people who matter, or even the people who matter most. ​ There is a huge swath of the tech industry whose only experience of real world inequality is tiptoeing around homeless people on the way to work. And it’s easy for them to continue to live in that bubble and entertain the delusion that absolutist ideas — both good and bad — can be implemented when they can’t. ​ This interprets journalism as public relations, which it is not. Journalists are not supposed to cheerlead the industry; they’re supposed to cover it, and that means writing the good things and the bad with no overriding preference for one over the other. ​ And everyone is an unreliable narrator when they articulate their own experiences.
·mynewbandis.substack.com·
Slate Star Clusterfuck
Clean the tiles, not the floor
Clean the tiles, not the floor
The general rule seems to be this: the more abstract we make an event – that is, the more we see it in terms of its meaning to the mind, rather than how it feels to the senses – the greater the psychological pain that is created. The more we can zoom into the direct experience, and refrain from engaging with the story around it, the less of a pain in the ass it is.
·raptitude.com·
Clean the tiles, not the floor
Sam’s “17 lessons I learned in ‘17” post
Sam’s “17 lessons I learned in ‘17” post
This next project might take one year, five, or twenty, but it is not you. You are a superset of what you do, not a subset. Narratives based in past behavior are by definition out of date. Sometimes allow yourself to just be open to possibility of the next moment being different. How does the story change in this moment? The key to talent development of yourself and others: propulsion off cliffs with parachutes one size too small. Sometimes you land hard but your wings build muscle.
·medium.com·
Sam’s “17 lessons I learned in ‘17” post
wassup brooooo
wassup brooooo
personal writing is very scary! i hesitate to do it because it’s really easy to fall into the trap (at least i think it’s a trap) of self-narrative — constantly writing about Who You Are and How You Came To Be, constructing these self-reinforcing loops of story and definition around your own brain…but i am starting to think it’s ultimately limiting, even deceptive, when it comes to actual growth and self-awareness.
·pycnocline.substack.com·
wassup brooooo
Narrative Strategy
Narrative Strategy
it’s interesting to note how powerful it can be to have an actual writer crafting narrative strategy. Articulation is the first product
·tomcritchlow.com·
Narrative Strategy