Tag: Books
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Don’t kill your darlings, put them in the dead pool
Here is some (book) writing pedantry for business book writing. Of course, the way to write anything is to “just start writing.” For some people, this works. For most, the question is, “yes, but how ‘just start writing’?” That is, how do you start with a blank screen/blank sheet of paper? For me, I start…
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What happens when one storytelling style dominates the world? – ‘I realised this, at first, when I was reading Strange Tales of the Chinese Studio, a novel written at the end of the Ming dynasty. I was amused that each story ended in a way that would make most Western readers (and probably modern Chinese…
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Helen Garner’s ‘How to End a Story’ – Noticing.
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Agentic Design Patterns, book draft –
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Training LLMs on books judged as fair use – “In a nutshell, the judge says that legally purchased books can be used to train AI, as long as the models do not reproduce verbatim the original copyrighted works. Pirated books, of course, are a separate issue. They are unlawfully acquired! We can’t steal a book…
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How Long Does It Take to Draw a Picture of Every Pub in London? – ”That was true in more ways than one. Ms. Wood, 31, is on a mission to draw every pub in London. She has completed about 300, and has about 2,500 left”
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The Prompt Engineering Playbook for Programmers –
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On the pleasure of reading private notebooks – Diaries (“journals”) and notebooks are the best, I love them as well. // “I think this is because our genuine thoughts (and interests) are more detailed and alive than the simulations we have of what we should say (or be interested in). When we think no one…
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Moody Folkloric Fantasy – The Beast of Black Keep – This guy makes great, little adventures, here’s a new one.
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Making books that fly, fold, wrap, hide, pop up, twist, and turn : books for kids to make – …and adults.
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news that stays news – What’s old to you is completely new to younger people, no matter how old the text is: “One of the things that’s great about being the kind of teacher I am is that you spend your life introducing new people to old things: when my students fall in love with…
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28 slightly rude notes on writing – by Adam Mastroianni – ”Somehow, whenever I finish a draft, my first few paragraphs almost always contain ideas that were necessary for writing the rest of the piece, but that aren’t necessary for understanding it.” // Lower down, that first part to delete is called “the windup.” I…
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Drew Struzan: The Man Behind Your Favorite Childhood Movie Posters –
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Keith McNally’s Regrets… and his Dazzling, Driven Life – Sounds like fun-good book. // “Keith never makes a fuss about caring either. Instead, he subtly creates a sense that, if you’re there, you belong there, not because you’ve elbowed through some arduous gatekeeping process, but because your comfort is being seen to, and all you…
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Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong? – “rather than continuing to treat ADHD as a chronic medical disorder primarily requiring pharmaceutical intervention, it may be more helpful to see it as a situational mismatch between individuals and their environments.”
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The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem – Well, at least we know the robots have great taste, having been built with “multiple works by Joan Didion translated into several languages.” // “The White Album” is one of the great essays. Even her packing list is one of the top five lit-sticals ever. // Also,…
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The Secret History of the Manicule – The Little Hand that’s Everywhere.
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Do these dual images say anything about your personality? – It doesn’t matter if you saw a rabbit, a vase, or an old woman. // “We didn’t find very much support for the claims, but there were some correlations in our data.”
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Vision and Distortion in Cézanne’s ‘Still Life with Plaster Cupid’ – Good example of art criticism, “how to see,” all that.
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The big idea: what do we really mean by free speech? – What “freedom of speech” means to the asshats: “what they actually want is freedom from the consequences of broadcasting their views.”
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