Derek Sivers shares his writing process. For many, writing is the mess we make. Publishing is the mess cleaned up.
Author: Patrick Rhone
Speaking of Alphasmart, Stephen Hackett has a video review of the Neo 2. Turns out, you can buy them on Amazon for under $50 used.
Maybe an Alphasmart 3000 is all you need.
Nature is relentless. We cannot stop nature. We can only redirect it. We can halt it, temporarily, but, left ignored, nature will always return. We can either decide to keep working against it, or we can decide to live in harmony with it.
Matt Hayhurst brings us a Nina Simone song I’ve never heard before, Isn’t It A Pity. So good!
Robin Sloan makes sentence gradients and the results are very, very, cool. I’d buy a whole book worth of these.
Don’t know what to write? Nicholas Bate gives you 22 ideas.
One of my favorite annual reads, the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report. So much one can learn about investing, finance, corporate stewardship, playing the long game, and more. Written by Warren Buffett himself. Don’t bet against him.
The stories varied, but most people told the same basic tale: of a company, and a CEO, whose techno-optimism has been crushed as they’ve learned the myriad ways their platform can be used for ill.
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