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Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water
After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water
During enlightenment: Cho🤪?w 🤨🌀😵💫d🫠cw💦🫠🤪✨
my writing process is:
1. i have an idea and let it simmer in the back of my mind for a few years
2. at some point the muse gets fed up and demands several months of my life
3. voice-transcribe all my ideas into a google doc
4. ask Claude to turn the transcription notes into an essay
5. get irrationally upset at how much I hate Claude’s essay. scrap it
6. go line-by-line, telling Claude what I actually wanted each note to say
7. copy the sentence I just typed to Claude back into my google doc
8. eventually it’s an essay
9. (sometimes) publish!
my writing process is:
1. i have an idea and let it simmer in the back of my mind for a few days or weeks
2. i sit down and try to speed-write a draft using squibler.io/dangerous-writin…
3. i copy into a google doc and edit
4. if i am dissatisfied, i set it aside and try again another time, from scratch
5. for some essays, i later give multiple drafts to claude and ask claude to make it one cohesive essay
6. i copy into a google doc and edit again
7. i put it through pangram and edit out claude-slop until i hit 100% human
8. sometimes i run it through hemingwayapp.com/ and try to simplify my sentences
9. publish!
There was one night at Treeweek where I thought…fuck it, I’m just gonna fully relax and stop inhibiting my cozy vibe.
Then every time I sat down somewhere, the people in my vicinity would almost immediately melt into a cuddle puddle.
It happened four times!
In weird places!
A staircase, a loud techno dance floor, a hallway
… Is this 🦋 soft power?
I’m playing @Prigoose’s twitter war game.
Finding it cool it how changes my behavior here
It’s like Priya encoded her approach to twitter into a game, and by playing I get to try it on without having to think too hard about it
Scootering down the canal in my favorite fall coat, with a guitar on my back feels like playing Ananta: The Video Game
I think I need a little theme song
I’m so pumped I finally found a guitar teacher I resonate with. I can literally feel myself expanding every few minutes during the hour lesson, and I leave every session deeply inspired 🤯
I’m so in awe someone could mentor me in this way.
I happy ugly-cried a little on the U8 today
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ananta retweeted
Ok you know how you have to walk the dog every day or they get anxiety?
well you also gotta walk the human
when I was a kid I would secretly read parenting books and give my parents suggestions on what to do
my German-speaking personality has more rizz than my English-speaking personality
despite only being able to speak slightly-unhinged toddler-German
My version of Morning Pages is to follow a simple musical phrase for half an hour on repeat, and see where it takes me
"You can be deeply relaxed (low-arousal, parasympathetic) and still highly clenched"
After months of writing, 'How to Unclench' is finally live!
It's an interactive essay packed with stories, science & guided practices to help you unclench.
→ howtounclench.com






