Notes, links, etc

Editing is easier than writing

“Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue—“Homer, I don’t want you to do that.” “Then I won’t do it.” Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done. It’s like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I’ve taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.”
John Swartzwelder, via the New Yorker

I quote this all the time (paraphrased). I thought I should look it up again.

Well this is really nice

Baby seagulls in Brighton

This is a post about looking after baby seagulls in need. You’re from Brighton, you’ll like it.

“I am, I think, a little unusual in liking to feel insignificant, not so important. To be only one small decibel in the great chorus of beings is to recognize how much we are part of all existence. None of us is the whole orchestra. Yet what happiness, to be part of that music.”

https://poets.org/national-poetry-month/dear-jane-hirshfield-michael

So, Lazarus…

I know everyone hates the AI video for ToysRUs but is no one going to comment on the fact it’s AI and it’s a simple way for ToysRUs founder Lazarus to come back from the dead?

This is helpful.

Notion AI

I’d like AI to read all the emails from Notion about AI and tell me if I should read them too.

going going

A book apart - winding down. (Carefully worded posts on LinkedIn from authors about not being paid)

IxDA

Two things on jumping in / raging

1. A Tale of Judgment and Grace - I love this blog, (found via Phil). The writing is beautiful. This is good post and worth thinking about.
2. This post on LinkedIn about Anthropologie’s new adaptive clothing line. I often read the comments on things, especially when it’s a topic I don’t know anything about. It looks like this is a bad photo of potentially a good clothing thing. It’s easy to judge and it’s easy to judge the judgers, but it sounds like there was more thought put into this than first glance might give it.