Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv 2021-06-02

it takes a lot of work to figure out what’s compelling to you, and then it takes even more work to figure out how to make it compelling to others


Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv 2021-06-02

to do this you have to not only know yourself and the subject you care about – you also have to know other people, their assumptions and expectations, you have to know the language that you’re communicating in, and the medium that you’re communicating in


Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv 2021-06-02

the thing that always gets me is – while this is hard, it’s not impossible. there are several parts to the equation, but it’s not infinite parts. you can study each of these things & get good enough at each of them in order to synthesize something that other people think is magic


Brandon Toner @brandontoner 2021-06-02

Significance/meaning is mysterious. Helluva drug.


Kushaan @kushaanshah 2021-06-02

Writing my newsletter has largely just been a progressive discovery of how to do the latter better each month 🧐


BK @bradkelly 2021-06-02

As a fiction writer, this is a space I live in moment to moment. Paying attention to what excites and interests me right down to the individual gesture, the singular turn of phrase.

Stringing together a few thousand of these into a coherent whole is a majestic process.


Matt Lady @mattlady 2021-06-02

It’s so true.

I have my 10 year “overnight success” planned all but lined up 


It’s just convincing myself to be patient enough, and stupid enough to think I can pull it off.