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The first time I remember really enjoying writing something (and finishing it) was for my high school English class. Our teacher, Mr. Page, was a British cool music connoisseur who happened to also teach AP English. One of our assignments was simply to choose a song we liked and write an essay analyzing it. I picked a song and started listening to it on repeat, unlocking a small new insight each time. I got a 97 or 98 on the paper, but I hadn’t been worried because I liked what I wrote. I’ve had a few careers since then, and somehow, I’ve found myself writing in some capacity in each of them. When I dabbled in acting, I wanted to write scripts and lyrics for original scores. In medicine, it was academic papers and irreverent op-eds. Now in this tech-ish world, I find myself writing this blog. I didn’t see the pattern until recently, but once I did, examples kept appearing. So I’ve started calling this archetype the writer-builder — someone who both writes and builds in a given domain (

Writer-Builders The archetype of a new kind of renaissance man Apr 30, 2024 ∙ Paid 206 33 41 Share “You can make anything by writing.” — C.S. Lewis The first time I remember really enjoying writing something (and finishing it) was for my high school English class. Our teacher, Mr. Page, was a British cool music connoisseur who happened to also teach AP English. One of our assignments was simply to choose a song we liked and write an essay analyzing it. I picked a song and started listening to it on repeat, unlocking a small new insight each time. I got a 97 or 98 on the paper, but I hadn’t bee

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