On Becoming the Internet Gardener - by James Q
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Notes on three years of writing every day and creating a beautiful pocket on the internet
The Garden at Les Lauves – Paul Cézanne For most of my life, I didn’t like writing — I despised it in fact. It was my worst subject in school by a wide margin. The words didn’t come easy to me. I remember taking an English diagnostic exam at the start of my junior year of high school. I scored a 27% and my teacher recommended that I drop down a level. I was the stereotypical math and science nerd with little aptitude — or interest — in writing. This changed in the Summer of 2019 after reading Paul Graham’s Age of the Essay. Before, I associated essays with analyzing novels or dissecting…
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