I miss writing. That’s a strange thing to say because I’ve been employed as a full-time writer for the past 14 months. And I have spent many weekends to catch up on some articles. So technically, writing is all I’ve been doing with my brain’s depleting productive quota. But it’s been a while since I…
Category: Writing
I’ve been down a rabbit hole for the past few months, obsessed with a single question: “What makes a writing human?” It started, ironically, because I was trying to automate my reading list. I’m a tinkerer. So naturally, I wrote a bunch of Python scripts to feed podcast transcripts and long-form essays into LLMs. The…
While writing that previous post, I needed a title for it. Asked chat GPT: I want to create a title for a blog post the post will talk about the value of engaging with a material, how cognitive effort is the key to effective learning I want to contrast it against the idea of merely…
I heard a sentence I like recently: “now is the only time there is”. Later that day, I thought of two other ways of articulating the same idea, but they somehow feel less profound. “now is all you have” “there is only now” AI’s “taste” Curious, I decided to ask Chat GPT to analyse them.…
“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein I’ve always taken this to mean I need to extend and enrich the scope of the languages I know. I would acquire new vocabularies, unlock new concepts, and weave new routes of thoughts. But the past 8 months or so, I…
I think short form content has been unfairly demonised and long form overly romanticised Short form is NOT making us stupid and distracted. shorter content != dumbed down content not being able to tolerate or engage with badly written text != illiterate Yes sure, there are short form that lack nuance, substance, or clarity. but…
Again about the previous post: I think short form content has been unfairly demonised and long form overly romanticised A better way to think about this is: Long form helps you think / find out what you’re trying to say. Short form helps you get the points across. (This frame applies to both reading &…
So. As part of my latest attempt in untangling this writing paralysis, last Tuesday I promised my therapist to publish two posts to Substack by the end of today. I had one full week but only started dusting off my writing environment on Saturday. Tinkered with some drafts, captured new ideas, but unable to fully…
i don’t need to be brief. i don’t need to be coherent. i dont need to be heard/read/understood i don’t need to be comprehensive, correct / valid forever no need to fit into any template, mine or others out of the vast “catalogue” out there. you have my full permission to sleep, eat, read, listen…
There are two hard problems in blogging: picking a title (before you know what you want to say) figuring out what you want to say [*]. This post is me trying to find good-enough solution for the first problem [**]. Did some testing with markpress. Conclusions: the markdown filename is independent off the post title.…