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On Writing #3
Periodically I like to gather various observations about writing, and share my perspective.
The social contract of writing | jola.dev
About the value of genuine writing in a world being drowned in slop.
Writing Is Thinking
When you write about your work, it makes all of us smarter for the effort, including you. Done well, this kind of sharing means you’re contributing signal, instead of noise. But writers are made, n…
An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants
To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a professional writer for decades, even though the number of ways to make
Toward a durable writing stack – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider
I have benefited over the years from others who have documented their writing setups, and so I feel some obligation to pay the favor forward by doing so with my own. The stack I’ll describe here is one I’ve been iterating on for about twenty years, starting from when I began discovering the pleasures of plain-text writing. Every aspect of it has changed over that period, but the some basic goals and flows have been with me through the writing of my college thesis, five books, and hundreds of articles. I am quite happy with where I am, and others might benefit from what I’ve come up with.
Minimum Queue Publishing - Wesley's notes
A strategy for writing more often without losing momentum
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Living Documents on the Feed
What could long-form writing sitting alongside posts look like?
Living Documents on the Feed
What could long-form writing sitting alongside posts look like?
Living Documents on the Feed
What could long-form writing sitting alongside posts look like?
Hi, I'm David Perell.
I write, host a podcast, and run a writing school called Write of Passage.
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