writing is an inherently dignified human activity

Been saying this for years, and it’s one of the few things that I’m still certain about. Cartoon is from one of the many earlier posts I made on the subject. One reason I started my own newsletter was that Celine Nguyen showed what was possible. Inspirational is a word often used too lightly. Here, it fits exactly. From the diary of André Gide, on December 31, 1891: When one has begun to write, the hardest thing is to be sincere. Essential to mull over that idea and to define artistic sincerity. Meanwhile, I hit upon this: the word must never precede the idea. Or else: the word must always be necessitated by the idea. It must be irresistible and ine… It’s challenging to write a genuinely interesting academic monograph; it’s also challenging, I think, to write an interesting review of one! But I loved Derek Neal’s review of the NYU humanities prof Leif Weatherby’s Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism. Neal’s review is just so inviting and accessible and engag

Been saying this for years, and it’s one of the few things that I’m still certain about. Cartoon is from one of the many earlier posts I made on the subject. One reason I started my own newsletter was that Celine Nguyen showed what was possible. Inspirational is a word often used too lightly. Here, it fits exactly. From the diary of André Gide, on December 31, 1891: When one has begun to write, the hardest thing is to be sincere. Essential to mull over that idea and to define artistic sincerity. Meanwhile, I hit upon this: the word must never precede the idea. Or else: the word must always be