#writing

A departure post from Bryce where he talk about his exit from blogging and his motivations for doing so.

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Back in April, I decided to write daily for my newsletter. Up to that point, my newsletter was mostly a delivery mechanism for my blog. But I wanted to change that. I wanted to write more.

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I didn’t leave the attention economy because I hated it. I left because I understood it, because once you see the system for what it is—a parasitic loop that rewards noise over nuance, metrics over meaning, reaction over reflection—you have two choices. Keep optimizing for reach, or

Less than 1% of your writing will be life-changing. 3% will be trivial to write. 4% will strongly resonate with others in a way you didn't expect. 5% will be quite good. 15% probably should've never been published. 26% will illicit a reaction you did not expect. Positive or negative. 28% will be

One of my few prized possessions is this 70-page autobiographical book by my great-grandfather who was born in 1902 and was a farmer in France. Only a few copies were printed. His chapter titles are truly amazing, each is about 1-2 pages: - I saw the beginning of electrification - I saw the first cars - I saw the first airplanes - I smoked my first cigarette at 7 years old - I saw a total solar eclipse - The telephone - 1914: The war - I had the Spanish flu

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Angelo Pesce's homepage & blog on computers, graphics and other things.

I came across this recent video from Vicky Zhao last week and loved her brief summary of how she grew in her ability to clearly articulate ideas on the spot by getting to the point, using story str…

Sriram Krishnan calls Tyler Cowen one of the best talent spotters. I take a few life lessons from Tyler, who I consider a mentor even though we’ve spent, at most, dozens of minutes together …

Write a letter to the future: set goals for yourself, make a prediction about the world. Envision the future, and then make it happen. FutureMe has been delivering letters to the future for millions of people since 2002.

The website of Robin Rendle, a designer and writer from the UK.

A short guide to help you build a habit of writing consistently by Peter Suhm.

We’re all familiar with processes like “write a weekly status update” that start strong and eventually fade out to low participation, engineers automating their updates, and gibberish. When you ask…

I woke up this morning, sleep deprived after my cat woke me up repeatedly last night and discovered I needed to write something about writing. Perhaps it's because I'm reading "Bird by bird" again by Anne Lamott. So here is another post about writing as a software engineer. I love writing, I love the feel of knowing there's a seed of a story or an idea inside. With some writing projects I know something is there worth telling, but I don't always know enough about it yet to be sure. Sometimes it requires upfront research and sometimes I think I know enough to start writing and see the idea emerge as I type. The piece advances, in fits and starts, as I go back and research gaps, and often discarding the whole thing and rewriting it again... until it has formed itself into something worth while. Then I send it to people for review and I get more ideas and insights making the piece better again.

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Advice and guidelines for writing at Clearleft, the design transformation consultancy.