3wordmagic

you can look it up

The idea for this post came up mid-conversation with @neuranne when I was telling her about how inspired I was by an audio ess

discourse cycles

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journalling

I am always recommending to people that they ought to journal. Keep a diary, write your memoirs, it doesn’t really preci

attention metrics

I usually bring up this thread/idea when talking with people about things like optimizing for views or follower counts. The th

language (orwell, russell)

Aug2023: This threadpost will likely eventually become part of a substack essay I’ve been stewing on titled “In ot

joke about outcomes you want

one of my riffs on Twitter that’s taken off and embedded in other people’s minds is the idea of “joke about

words of power

Original thread here. I loved reading, all my life. Books gave me an interiority; entire multiverses within myself that no aut

comms is lossy

It’s amazing that any of us are able to understand each other at all. Communication is lossy. (“Lossy” is a

memed into existence

This page is a collection of instances of the phrase “memed into existence”. I’m collecting them out of nerd

đź—˝iconography

I think about iconography a lot, I have multiple twitter threads about them. I’ll eventually expand this into a blogpost

aesthetics

A loose set of notes about aesthetics. What are aesthetics? Why don’t you just say beautiful, or pretty? Why use this

magic junkyard

just doing the thing where I coin a phrase and then track how it spreads “We’ve been called everything from”

đź—Ł talking to people makes you a better writer

A friend asked me for some advice on a massive writing project that he’s had on the backburner for a while now. It sound

🤓 ‘Smart Writing’ is about cultivating taste, suspending judgement and chasing your curiosity

I saw someone tweet “I wish smart writing came to me as easily as dumb tweeting” — and so I am here to share my strategy

Politics and the English language [2016]

The following is my attempt to update George Orwell’s essay Politics and the English Language [1946] for modern reading.