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Short Story Club(shortstory.club)
8 points by jamesjyu 6y ago|1 comments
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by jamesjyu 6y ago
I fully agree with the author on the problem, but the suggested solution of doing periodic readings together is a hard sell for busy ppl to commit to - I find synchronous reading boring. There are a few ways to increase the chance of a book
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by jamesjyu 6y ago
That's an interesting perspective: why do you believe that it will be an individual who will make a breakthrough, as opposed to a web of Carmack-like folks?
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by jamesjyu 6y ago
> Ebola is deadlier than corona. So's obesity. The interesting thing about Ebola is that b/c its symptoms are so horrible and fatality rate so high (50%), people treated it much more seriously, therefore helping to contain it.
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by jamesjyu 6y ago
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :)
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Six Hopeful Sci-Fi Stories of a Post Covid-19 World(sudowriters.com)
80 points by jamesjyu 6y ago|20 comments
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by jamesjyu 7y ago
"No one will be able to time this" "put your retirement into bonds and hold on" facepalm
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by jamesjyu 7y ago
Frontpage: the original no code software.
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by jamesjyu 7y ago
Alternate solution: downgrade to a dial-up ISP.
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Room Service – Add real time collaboration in minutes(roomservice.dev)
1 points by jamesjyu 7y ago|0 comments
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Boz's Thoughts on Facebook and Trump's Election Win(facebook.com)
2 points by jamesjyu 7y ago|0 comments
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by jamesjyu 7y ago
But their usage pattern and infra can build on past experience, whereas D+ has none of that. Black swans galore.
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Fortnite has reached The End – changing video game storytelling for good(theguardian.com)
3 points by jamesjyu 7y ago|0 comments
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Kindle Kids Edition(amazon.com)
28 points by jamesjyu 7y ago|23 comments
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Working Futures: 14 Speculative Stories About the Future of Work(workingfutur.es)
2 points by jamesjyu 7y ago|0 comments
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by jamesjyu 7y ago
Seems similar to the Bouba/Kiki effect [1] where we automatically associate spiky and smooth shapes with certain names. I did this test with my toddler and he chose “correctly.” [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by jamesjyu 7y ago
I wrote a bit about my journey from tech to fiction that may be helpful perspective: https://www.jamesyu.org/blog/my-journey-from-frame-maker-to-...
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by jamesjyu 7y ago
Just get his two anthologies: Story of Your Life and Others, and Exhalation. They’re not long, but you’ll find that his stories are worth rereading. I’d recommend starting with Tower of Babylon or Understand, then jumping into Story of Your
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by jamesjyu 7y ago
Agreed here. You must love the material/story or you’ll never write it. Also writing is revision, and revision is hard, even for professionals. But it’s the process of going through the hard parts that make the story good. Staying pass
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by jamesjyu 7y ago
Ted Chiang is the reason I started writing fiction. A few months ago I got the chance to meet him and have him critique one of my stories, as well as pick his brain on his process. I wrote about it here for those that are curious: https:&#
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by jamesjyu 7y ago
Role Playing Gateway [1] may be the closest thing you'll find online. It has shared universes and players creating their own characters and writing short stories about their journeys and taking actions. It’s not quite an MMO since it’s
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Steady State: a story about engagement algorithms(jamesyu.org)
2 points by jamesjyu 7y ago|0 comments
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by jamesjyu 7y ago
Jekyll static site with a custom template.
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by jamesjyu 7y ago
There's also an aesthetic homogeneity to the big social media sites that strikes me as bleak and depressing compared to the amateurish, handmade web pages of my childhood. Different pages on the same website — even different entries i
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by jamesjyu 7y ago
If anyone is curious about the short fiction market, I've been knee deep into that for the past year or so (coming from tech), I'm happy to chat and give advice. In short: do it for leisure, hobby, or the love of the craft.
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Continuous Publishing(jamesyu.org)
1 points by jamesjyu 7y ago|0 comments
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My Journey from Frame Maker to Painter(jamesyu.org)
3 points by jamesjyu 7y ago|0 comments
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The Danger in Reading Finished Works(jamesyu.org)
3 points by jamesjyu 7y ago|0 comments
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by jamesjyu 7y ago
Usually workshops are a good place to find folks at your level, and those that go are usually eager to connect, and maybe even start a critique group if that is what you want. You can also try larger cons that are aimed at your vertical, bu
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by jamesjyu 7y ago
Good stuff! I agree with everything in that thread. I think a lot about the comparisons to coding, because both writing and coding are acts of thinking. When we started Parse, for example, we hired folks who were naturally inclined to write

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