🔗 A Little Help From My Friends?
Jack London used to buy story ideas from the young Sinclair Lewis. He blamed his “damnable lack of origination”: “I’m damned if my stories just come to me,” he wrote. “I had to work like the devil for the themes.”
💬 Futility Closet
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expression, you see — with me — is far easier than invention.
💬 Jack London ~ writing to Elwyn Hoffman,
Leon reposted this 🔗 Disparaging Nouns | Forking Mad+ … with some commentary. Got a couple of comments back in turn - so I thought I would pop over to see what was being said in context - …
People will be more important in the future, not less.
💬 Mark Zuckerberg
Whilst I fervently believe that - I don’t ~believe him~ think he knows what that really means.
Now - Not Important
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The Future - Very Important
To add someone as a friend on the new Friendster iOS app, the two of you have to physically tap your phones together.
💬 Patrick Rhone
Nice idea - downloaded - now we just need to work out where to meet - we are only 8,000 miles / 13,000 kilometres apart.
💬 👁️🏢 People First - All Else Follows.
Productivity is a recent invention; wintering is not.
💬 Joan Westenberg
Superb piece. Readwised - so I can keep coming back.
🔗 A quote from Matthew Yglesias
Five months in, I think I’ve decided that I don’t want to vibecode – I want professionally managed software companies to use AI coding assistance to make more/better/cheaper software products that they sell to me for money.
💬 Matthew Yglesias
💬 A selection from my morning’s ‘Readwise’. I see a theme - despite the source variations. Is that just me?
💬 Not just coding.
💬 published in 1953
