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I continue to crawl deeper into the rabbit hole of distraction-free writing with the addition of Alpha smart Neo 2.

Emacs of course

Looks like Olivetti

Found this mysterious thing called typewriter in a thrift shop. Adopted it immediately. Needs a new ribbon, otherwise healthy.

I am looking for writers sharing their experiences/research on chronic disease, fibromyalgia, CFS, and other related topics. Any suggestions are welcome.

I haven't read much fiction recently. Usually I listen audiobooks for fiction and read for non-fiction.

Last audiobook that I listened was Bleak House by C. Dickens, and now I'm listening to Sherlock Holmes stories narrated by Stephen Fry.

Also, reading collection of Orwell's essays.

When people write fiction with AI and have no idea how good fiction actually looks like:

I think it's still possible to go fast--but you have to pack your bag the night before.

Why do competitors open their stores next to one another? - Jac de Haan YouTube video by TED-Ed

It's a game of tradeoffs: sure, you will lose some customers, but you might also gain new customers. Being near your competitor means that you have access to greater number of customers. That's why shops, gas stations etc. always cluster around a point. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jILg...

Brings back memories: printing out game walkthroughs on school computers, writing down cheat codes in the notebook, inviting over friends who could beat the level for me.

Second time this year. MacBooks are just built different.

I don't 🙂

Yeah. Reticular Activating System is doing all it can by filtering the input of your senses to make you behave in certain way.

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer

"The foundation, then, for a generative or productive rhetoric of the sentence is that composition is essentially a process of addition."

-- Francis Christensen, A Generative Rhetoric of the Sentence (www.jstor.org/stable/355051)

Make a point by adding, not subtracting. John Erskine, "A Note on the Writer's Craft" (archive.org/details/dli....)

"First learn. Then understand. Insight requires ideas to be uploaded to the mind first."

-- Alan U. Kennington, The Asterisk Method (www.geometry.org/tex/conc/mat...)

TIL that most cats with patchy fur are female.

Hi, I'm Jyri, and I should cut my nails and comb my hair next time to look less like a werewolf.

"One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun." -- Novalis

Five authors I've read five (or more) books by?
Jack London
Honoré de Balzac
Philip K. Dick
Thomas Mann
Marcel Proust

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