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by blockwriter 4y ago
I write literary fiction and have kept a daily diary for the better part of my years spent writing. While the keeping of a diary was initially meant as a private practice, used only to begin my days in consideration of life before I began m
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Trying to reference the value of a cell in another sheet seems to work correctly maybe 50% of the time the first time I try it on Mac.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Keeping a daily diary by hand is a good first step. When you’re reading, look for sentences whose construction surprises you or is otherwise novel. If you can, try to pay attention to how the parts of speech are being used to form the sente
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Video game companies start using ai in various tedious parts of the development process. Enough is done the old fashioned way that the result is not immediately obvious. The video game market is saturated with new releases.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Does your son do it freely of his own accord, or only at the behest of one or both of his parents? I would check in with him in ten years as to how sanguine he feels about a rather uncommon rite of hygiene being imposed, or simply encourage
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by blockwriter 4y ago
You can relax in public without the mask as well. There are more pressing moral and social concerns in our day to day lives.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
There are a select few agents who specialize in literary fiction. If you start a naive search of literary agents, you will find that their stated interests zero in on books that are of the political moment. The majority of agents are lookin
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by blockwriter 4y ago
I doubt if there is a process for steeling yourself to the indifference of others. To my mind, you either have a compulsion, a preexisting urge that allows you to be indifferent to outside influence, or else you seek out a pursuit that peop
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Can you sabotage the company asymmetrically, so that you and your two friends can get it back to 250k a year whereas the troublesome shareholder cannot? Can you vote to direct all profits above cost to a charity, and then offer to buy him o
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Broadly speaking, I would say my life's work is the intersection of literature and what I call my spiritual mission. When I started writing, I was of the mindset that all of one's life should be dedicated to the task of writing, t
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by blockwriter 4y ago
It seems only inevitable that ChatGPT will be used to exploit children.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
His firm develops multi-unit buildings in Chicago, mostly residential. I think he is just annoyed that the easy money is drying up, and that it hurts his bottom line or business in general. Based on his attitude, though, I'm just amaze
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by blockwriter 4y ago
My friend that has been a general contractor for around ten years acts like it's not even worth doing his job anymore now that interest rates are going up.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
I find reading and my daily speech to be intimately connected. I would invest more time in reading florid writing.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
The documentary did mention the problem H&H faced when the price of coffee began to rise beyond a nickel a cup. It mentioned changes in the fast food industry, too, but I glommed onto the influence of the suburbs.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Nice, one hundred more settlements of this size and we can buy our parking meters back. You developers better found some more Ubers. https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2022/5/26/23143356/ch...
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by blockwriter 4y ago
HBO Max has a documentary about the Automat, which was once America's largest chain restaurant. You could put in coins and receive food from small automated doors and spigots at the Automat. Its downfall came with expansion of the subu
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by blockwriter 4y ago
It’s endocrine awareness day on Hacker News ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33816861 )
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Seems that way to me as well. The appeal of increasing metrics in the short term is far more appealing to a profit-minded organization than the invention of increasingly useful tools to augment the process of reading, writing, and distribut
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by blockwriter 4y ago
I picked up grains from a farm in Dwight, Illinois that makes very limited use of herbicides and pesticides (it seems like oats are all but impossible to grow economically without some use of a weed killing agent). The farmer made the trans
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by blockwriter 4y ago
If any of the reports about Bankman-Fried's drug use are true, that might help explain his behavior.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
I make use of Substack for posting literary fiction. I've been noticing feature creep on Substack. I appreciate that there is an impetus to drive reader interest by continually improving, but it seems all but impossible that they will
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by blockwriter 4y ago
This will go away eventually.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
I will say that I would be in favor of a blanket ban on clothes made with synthetic fibers. An exception could be made for winter jackets, wetsuits, and the like, but I welcome sartorial tyranny.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Are glass and metal actually superior? Is more carbon produced transporting heavier glass and metal? Tax everything that is inconvenient, and I’m not sure if anything is affordable.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
This is the kind of writing I might be interested in putting out on my site, substack, and in print. See my about section.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Reportedly, Madigan sent Pritzker some kind of note with the names of all the governors that have come and gone while he remained speaker.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Madigan is the Darth Vader of Illinois politics. He was speaker of the Illinois House from 97' until 21', when another scandal involving ComEd, if I recall correctly, finally forced him to resign. His other hustle is lowering the
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by blockwriter 4y ago
They are axiomatic in that Kafka's worlds are frequently built upon a set of conditions, and the development is contingent upon how these conditions interact, whereas other writers often depart from pre-established rules because they b
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by blockwriter 4y ago
For me, my mental state feels less like burnout, and more like recovering from a traumatic physiological event, like a major surgery. My ability to be creative was suddenly cut off by the social effects of the response to the pandemic. I li

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