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`0:15:17`
write you know 10,000 words cuz that's what they do in the book publishing industry. Well I listened to your interview with Derek Sivers who's like one of my favorite people and writers and all that. And uh he said it the same way I would say which is write a bunch of essays…
`0:16:04`
a books worth of material here. Can we turn this into a book? It's not enough just to collect the essays it's enough to have them first, write them one at a time over many years and then put them together. But your sprinter analogy, I was a sprinter. And uh Finally I a sports…
`0:16:49`
essay I'll do that well. But if I push myself further than that, I mean you could say like maybe you should push yourself. What's wrong with pushing yourself? There's nothing wrong with that except to the point like I don't actually enjoy writing long things. I don't really like that. So…
`0:17:36`
suggestions but they're not really there's no calls to action. It's not like do these seven things and you will become whatever. It's like here's a point of view and we're just going to leave it out there and then you can think about it. I I like writing that way…
`0:18:21`
be us. Right. So uh it starts with with with what's natural. And then I just want to stay within the natural realm. I really think that the the thing I'm trying to get across here is that it's okay to know your limits and work within them and not feel like to become…
`0:19:07`
in school. Um I had to write it was all about length. It was like long basically and subjects I didn't care about. And uh it was miserable. It was it wasn't even writing. It was like um it actually I would just call it pointless. Mm. That's what it was. It was pointless…
`0:19:52`
about earlier is I can't wait to see the end product which is the synthesis and clarity Yes. of the idea in my head now on the page. Yeah, it's exciting. And sometimes it's frustrating I mean often times it's frustrating not even sometimes often times it's frustrating to like to to…
`0:20:38`
walk and and and and just sort of like talk it out and go oh, that's the line. Like there's there's usually like a line that gets me or there's a combination of words or a title for the essay. So I need some hook that I have to find that brings me…
`0:21:24`
stab. It's the coming back to something that I couldn't pull off the first time. So if I'm working on an idea and I can't quite get it there I do need confidence to return to it because like the prevailing feeling at that point is like couldn't do it. Couldn't…
`0:22:10`
Okay. Um Rick Hogan was our editor-in-chief and he was awesome old school printed out red ink you know like symbols and like I got to look these up. Right right Three dumb three lines under the thing. What is that again or whatever? Um and for as the first time I've ever worked…
`0:22:55`
the same. They didn't edit the piece in the same way but we talked through the things. I find that it's easier to talk through improving writing than it is to look at another draft. So when when I would submit a piece for Ink they wouldn't come back with a revised version. We…
`0:23:41`
working with an editor was great. I will say when I write my articles I don't share them with anybody ahead of time. I don't ask for feedback on them. I just put them out there and I'll edit usually as I go. Sometimes I'll do a final read and you know even…
`0:24:27`
loud but I can't be there. So hopefully other people read it and say it out loud to themselves and if there's a mistake like you it's not that big of a deal. I mean I want to make it right but also to what extent? There's this this is a weird story…
`0:25:13`
basically said like just like if you're a walking on a path and you stumbled or you tripped or you took a slightly different direction. You wouldn't back up and redo that section. You just keep going. It's just like yeah there was a thing that happened but you just keep going. And he…
`0:25:59`
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…
`0:26:45`
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…
`0:27:31`
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…
`0:28:18`
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…
`0:29:05`
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…
`0:29:50`
you're like, "Ah, I messed up, but I kind of got to go with it." Sort of like the path that you were talking about earlier. Whereas with the delete key, you can just look at the screen and go, "Delete, delete, delete, delete." And I just wonder if the delete key has contributed to a…