"there's artificial intelligence, and there's ACTUAL intelligence”

Franz Altschuler's illustration for Ray Bradbury's famous short story of time travel and dinosaurs A Sound of Thunder, featured in Playboy (June, 1956).

how a writer sees the world

Literally almost every single American I met in Asia, from all racial and ethnic backgrounds, from all socio-economic classes, from all walks of life says the absolute best thing about Asia is walkability. Car culture is so unbelievably miserable you have no idea how miserable

imagine using ai to write instead of just keeping this tab open the whole time

ArtButMakeItSports mr. joshua mr. joshua

You can lead an ordinary life and be an extraordinary writer. And even if you're a mediocre writer, please write. Someone will resonate with your words. We need long form content in this world of slop. I want to see people being earnest and thoughtful.

Decades of studying and teaching emotional intelligence, condensed into a single page:

what people don’t realize is that to write is to think. by outsourcing your writing you are outsourcing your thinking. you are paying for the degradation of your own mind. don’t use AI to “structure” your thoughts. structure them yourself. a shortcut to nowhere

Ivan Pavlov, he knew

The Passing of Time (2023) Jess Allen.

Hugo Timms, the great mind who brought us heavy hitting literature like “it’s not racist to quote the n-word” and “the nhs is sick with wokery” thinks that Sally Rooney is too stubborn— too preachy with her beliefs. Moral absolutism for me, but not for thee

This strange square 👇 is undoubtedly the most extraordinary work of literature in human history. Yet, unfortunately, barely anyone in the West has ever heard of it. There was this woman poet in 4th century China called Su Hui (蘇蕙), a child genius who had reportedly mastered

Girl to girl, please start creating again. Write. Draw. Color. Read. Dance. Craft. Your soul misses it.

me procrastinating on that one twitter article everyone’s saying we should read

you would love cocomelon bro

your first draft isn't perfect? what? that's weird. i've never heard of that happening before. maybe you should give up

It’s my life’s work. I’m not in a hurry.