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Vonnegut’s seventh rule: “Pity the readers”:
Kurt Vonnegut • Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style
intractable
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Andrew Taggart, who writes about our modern relationship to work, describes as “a first-person work‑centric story of progress about an individual’s life course.”
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
“Most people, if they do something that they feel is important, they want to keep at it, to maintain ownership. When I have an idea that’s successful and popular, that to me is a signal that my work is done. My style is to try to do something important and then abandon it and do something else.”
Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
he doesn’t want pity; he wants not to need it.
Tony Tulathimutte • Rejection
Having laid out at length the political problems with delegating the responsibility for coping with your own life to a political program, I must confess that my primary concern is personal, not political. I do not hate the knowledge workers at whom this type of essay is directed (I am one of them). I believe that large swathes of them are experienc... See more
Gawker • Failure to Cope "Under Capitalism"
Online: Marginal Revolution, Kottke.org, and Cool Tools (by Kevin Kelly, here).