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“Write to entertain yourself first. Because if you’re bored, your reader will be bored too. This applies even to client work with specific briefs and notes you may not actually agree with. Find a way to keep yourself interested and engaged and it’ll reflect in the work. Pander or try to write for an imagined audience and it will show.”

From 12 RULES FOR WRITING by Warren Ellis via his ORBITAL OPERATIONS newsletter.

“Write every day, but set a minimum boundary. Graham Greene only wrote 500 words a day. Some people set ten minutes of full focus a day. Putting your body in front of word-making materials for a period of time is the thing, and if that ever seems hard to you, think about Jean-Dominique Bauby, who had to dictate an entire book using only his left eye to signal with. Books are written only by the people who show up to write them, even if it’s only ten minutes a day.”

Also: “Always know when to leave the stage and what to leave behind.”

Many great tips from an expert in the field who's been around long enough to give it to you straight.

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  • In 2014, coal made up almost half of Greece’s energy generation. Just a decade later, solar and wind has tripled to 43%, with coal now only accounting for a meagre 6% — Via OUR WORLD IN DATA.

  • NATIVE LAND: Interactive map that lets you explore the traditional territories, languages and treaties of Indigenous peoples worldwide.

  • THE FIRST AMERICAN REVOLUTION examines surviving traces of the settlements “Pueblo people” built atop mesas following the Pueblo Revolt, which won back independence for the Native American population after nearly a century of Spanish rule in the American Southwest — ARCHEOLOGY.ORG

  • MIN: Minimal open-source browser.

  • The Dollar's Crown is Slipping, and Fast — Via REUTERS

  • Egypt's Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE) has signed three new project agreements with leading Chinese companies operating in the textile industry worth approximately $52.6 million. This I'm assuming is part of China's big geopolitical strategy to get around US tariffs — Via ALCHEMPRO

  • On average, 17 American war veterans have taken their own life every day since 2001 — Via THE HILL

  • JAN PLECHAC makes some of the most stunning glassware I've ever seen.

  • “It currently seems possible that our galaxy lays right in the middle of a two billion light year wide void in the universe... You know how impossible you are? You’re from a barren universal ditch, and yet here you are.” — Via Warren Ellis' ORBITAL OPERATIONS.

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“When there are so many signs of a system near collapse, accumulating enough money to avoid needing people feels like a deeply flawed approach. Instead, we ought to work harder at becoming the kind of person people want to help – and turn to for help – when the time comes.”

From DENSE DISCOVERY #344.

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“Some days I don’t want to touch my phone, when the competing demands create a kind of cognitive vertigo – not because I’m too busy, but because I get anxious about sending the wrong signal by forgetting to respond or not responding soon enough.

“Writer Miski Omar has the perfect term for this modern affliction: ‘multiverse fatigue’ – a kind of existential buffering that occurs when we interpret responsiveness as a proxy for care.”

Via Dense Discovery #349

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