Prison Diaries: An Excerpt from Alexei Navalny’s Memoir, “Patriot” | The New Yorker
Courage.
Category: link
I updated my commentary on the link to Mandy Brown’s post on writing for the internet and the search for readers with more clarified thoughts on my own goals.
I really liked this entertaining short film by Eric Kissack (editor & producer for The Good Place), in which a couple moving into a new apartment together discovers a previously unnoticed feature of their new space, which in turn…well, I don’t want to spoil anything. Just watch it.
I really enjoyed this as well. That said, it feels like… A start. I’d love to see it expanded into something more.
A peasant woodland | A Working Library
The more compelling and interesting reason that most writers seek out readers is, I think, less utilitarian: we receive our writing as a gift, and so it must be given in turn. We write because something needs to be expressed through us, and only by giving the writing to a reader is that need fulfilled.
This is such an interesting back and forth between two of the most intelligent writers/essayists I have the pleasure of reading.
I largely agree that this is part of it for me. That said, for me there’s a bigger reason… Clarity. Writing is the only way I know of to make my thoughts clear — both for others (the reader) and myself (the writer). I seek out readers because I want those now clear thoughts to be listened to, considered, and understood. Especially because I often don’t feel that they are all of these things internally — inside my head they are a confused and jumbled mess. Only when I put them out there do I finally make sense of them. It’s like, “Ah ha! So I can make sense of this mess!” I’m a reader too.
Episode 553: Pacing and Cadence | PM Talks S1:E10 – Mike Vardy
The latest episode of my monthly chat with Mike Vardy is available for your podcasting pleasure. Take a listen.
Forever ✱ Notes – A free framework for Apple Notes
Forever ✱ Notes is not an app, but a simple framework and scalable digital note-taking method for Apple Notes. It’s free and created to last—forever.
Interesting. As an increasingly frequent Notes user, I’ll be diving in to see if there’s anything useful here.
(via Hjalmer)
Hurricane Helene: Rumor Response | FEMA.gov
Get the facts from the source. The problem, of course, is…
Mike Rothschild, a journalist who has written two books about conspiracy theory culture, called FEMA’s effort “noble but doomed.” He wrote on X that “nobody who wants to believe the lies will trust the source, and the denials will just be rolled into the conspiracy theories.”
“A billion dollars was stolen from FEMA to use it for illegal migrants,” Trump falsely claimed Friday in Georgia.
But Trump was actually accusing the Biden administration of an act very similar to something he did as president.
“Republican elected officials keep rebutting the BS, and MAGA does not care,” conservative columnist David French said in a social media post Saturday. “They follow liars, and when the liars lie, they believe them and hate anyone who tells the truth.”