Mistakes and imperfections

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and I have two sets of basically bowls at my apartment. I have the cheap bowls that I bought on Amazon that are Amazon Basics and they're black. They're perfectly round. There's they're spotless. And then I have this one bowl that's blue um and it's got sort of some Oaxacan patterns and I bought it down there and it's got all these little nicks at this point and it's like very imperfect. The bowl isn't even perfectly round. The texture of it is sort of feels a little messy and stuff but I always pick up that bowl first. I never eat from the bland Amazon bowls before the Oaxacan bowl because it has so much more character. It has so much more life. It is so much more human. Yeah. Same thing. It's yeah it's the wabi-sabi thing in Japan. It's there's something about that. Now I should correct the spelling error. Like

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it does it doesn't make the piece Your in your point the nicks and the chips make the bowl feel different to you in a way that feels better. I don't think a spelling error makes the piece feel better but I also don't care that 340 people saw it wrong and then the rest 10,000 more saw it right when I fixed it online. It doesn't really matter that much. Yeah this is a a strange parallel that but it's somehow top of mind. But there's that John Legend song where he says all your perfect imperfections. It's like he's pouring out his love and his praise. And I think that we're talking about editing earlier. I think this is the problem where a lot of editors destroy writing is they try to make it perfect and they don't honor the perfect imperfections.

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no shade on my Ink editors but I had a few run-ins like that where there was like a sentence I wrote which I was really felt really good about and they kind of rewrote something and it was very it just felt like they were sterilizing it. Yes it's a great word. Yeah. And I'm like no no it's okay if there's some bacteria on this or whatever right? In my head I'm like that's yeah that might be better technically. Like there's words sometimes they would use. I I can't remember any examples but there was like the more it was the correct word but I don't want that word. I would like the way the other word sounded and felt and it was a little awkward and I kind of liked that. And so that's one of the tricks with editors is to help help them or help you know I guess help them understand what you're going for in your writing. It's for me it's not precision. It's not

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it it's it's a feeling I'm trying to get across. And this to sterilize something in some ways is to remove all the feeling. Like you walk into a space that's sterile. Maybe it's a beautiful museum or something or it's a beautiful modern piece of architecture. I love modern architecture. I love old But you walk into some modern and it's too sterile. It's cold. Everything's too perfect. There's like three materials. There's no dust anywhere. There's nothing. And you're like I don't really feel good in this space or I don't really want to touch anything and leave a fingerprint. Versus you walk into an old space that's patinaed. It's worn. It's been lived in. Uh maybe the ceilings are lower. It's more human scale and you're like this is messy. This is sort of whatever but I love this space. And that's how I want my writing to feel is like kind of

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like a lived in and I want our design to feel this way. Like our products are designed differently. They don't look like the industries where the industry work is all kind of everyone's like driving their style from Apple. It's just like everything's like trying to be Apple. We're trying to be like the cozy living room that's comfortable and it's precise enough but there's some attitude there. There's some personality. There's humanity I'd like to think at least and I'd like to have that in my writing as well. Yeah. Well I think that this is part of the problem with the keyboard itself is you have the delete key. Whereas if you have a typewriter or you're handwriting you end up with all of these weird errors and these weird imperfections and you sort of go on these tangents and stuff like that and