Effective selling of intellectual output rests almost entirely on your ability to be sincerely impressed by your own thoughts.
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Numbers game IMO
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Sometimes when writers are starting out, they agonize too much about whether their work is good
Simple trick: just be so prolific that you can’t recognise your own writing. Then you’ll be able to identify what’s good the same way you identify good writing anywhere else
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Yeah that’s what I’m talking about too! I just mean that it’s easier to be sincere when you have written so much that you don’t recognize your stuff as your own
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one of my best tweets of all time, part of a thread that seems uncommonly good considering that it was just another morning commute ("trojan horse of convenience", etc)
twitter.com/visakanv/statu
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