Struggle and Flow

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off I'm guessing here, but that's how the author was feeling when they were writing it too. Like I'll read something. I just read this book, The Overstory. You know this book? Yeah, Richard Powers. Yeah. Oh my god, it was incredible. I mean, it's a Pulitzer Prize winning book, so like I'm not the first person to say it, but his writing style, I just kept reading it and I'm like, man, he must have been smiling when he wrote this. That's how it felt. There's some super clever lines and clever paragraphs and clever passages. I'm like, he must be so proud of himself at the end of that. It's like, that that nugget, those six sentences together, that just nailed it. And I can just imagine a smile or imagine a pride in that in the author. That's what I want to get to. I want to have that feeling when I write something. What came to mind was Like this sense of just Oh my goodness.

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Yeah. It's just this awe, this majesty. Yeah. And I've had many moments throughout the years where I've seen that and I've had that wow moment and I've said, I didn't even know that that was possible. Like a sense of elegance that I want to recreate. That book is full of that. And I that's how I felt actually in that book. I was kind of shocked. I don't read a lot of fiction. I started reading that was the first fiction book I've read in a long time and now I'm like hooked on fiction, so I want to get into more more fiction, but that's how I felt when I read that book. I go, wow, what a beautiful way to the unfortunate clear-cutting of a huge forest. He described it as sort of coming upon this huge clear-cut space, this big arcing hill that was clear-cut of old trees. And he described it like the stubble on a bald man's head.

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Which was just like my what a great way to describe like clear cut trunks are left, short trunks are left and just like desolate emptiness. Nothing that's bald people. Man, the the the thing that really stands out in that is sometimes you read that and you'll see something like that you feel like oh I need to try so hard when I write and you're using this word contrived. Like contrived needs like a big red danger sign like do not go Yes. Because the way that that sort of elegance often comes out is exactly what you're saying earlier. I don't know where that came from. It comes out of the intuitive world, not the conscious world. I I believe so. I think most things that are good come off of the intuitive world, the gut basically. It's

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all gut. You were talking about the 37 signals guide to internal communications earlier. Yeah. When you have a piece like that where does the genesis moment, how does that happen? What inspires a piece like that? Is this a a question that you keep getting, a sense of frustration? What is anger? Yeah. Yeah, anger, frustration, yeah. It's usually I'll read something or I'll hear something and someone will say like this is how we make decisions or this is how we communicate. I'm like I need to share how we do it because this is like I just feel like this is wrong or you know it's wrong for us at least but like this should not be the only version of whatever this message is out in the world. We have our own message. So we usually develop software and I write from a place of frustration or anger is too strong but it's like a fun anger. It's like oh that's okay, okay. Yeah, let me show you what we can do or