beatin yourself up because you arent productive or doing things is probably one of the clearest signs that someone will eventually hit an intense per… - Paul Millerd

I have a hunch that many people are writing books that are not as good as they’d like and/or are upset with sales around launch because too many people are defaulting to tired playbooks for doing books.

Optimizing for joy and fun works far better than you’d think given how deeply we think suffering is the key to work.

A lot of modern writing feels like you're getting hammered over the head with words. Maybe that's the point to get you into submission to buy something or blindly follow. It's a big reason I've been reading more fiction and poetry. Even if some of the fiction writing can be too flowery, at least they care about a sentence.

One instance I see of this is the repetitive short chunk after a statement.

You want to be like a river. Flowing. Bubbling. Effervescent. Heading downstream.

It's like a staccato chaos. Maybe good for rap music but it breaks the brain down. Just write a better sentence of what you are trying to say.

You see the inverse too.

You need to be pathless. Not climbing. Not grinding. Not achieving. Just pathless. (what is the point of a sentence like this?)