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On Arguments
“What proof would it take to change your mind?”
If they can’t give you an answer, then stop wasting your time.
Most Advice Sucks.
So...
@chrishlad on Twitter
This book is a form of leverage. Long ago, I would have had to sit in a lecture hall and lecture each of you personally. I would have maybe reached a few hundred people, and that would have been that.
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
So we read to experience the mediocre and the outright rotten; such experience helps us to recognize those things when they begin to creep into our own work, and to steer clear of them. We also read in order to measure ourselves against the good and the great, to get a sense of all that can be done. And we read in order to experience different styles.
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