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When I have a problem, and it’s proving difficult to solve, I’ll often go on a walk about it, go talk to a friend about it, go try to solve it again. But when it’s proving intransigent, I’ll go write an essay proving why it just cannot be solved. That almost always fixes it.
@eshear oh shit i should write an essay about why my essays cannot be written lmao i give people this advice all the time but i needed to hear it from someone else, thanks mr shear https://t.co/HG3brK1n78
acquaintance: I wanna write but I don’t wanna write mediocre stuff me: first write it mediocre. then write an explainer articulating precisely how and why it is mediocre. this explainer will strongly imply how to make it non-mediocre. and from there you can write the good stuff