the problem with writing an essay is you really think you know what you're going to say and then you say it and it's ordered wrong and then it's too long and then it doesn't hang together and then it doesn't have its meat anymore and then... sadly, AI cannot yet help with that↗

If you're going to write for a human audience, you need to really optimize for humans! I believe people will still crave writing with a unique POV, personality, voice, humor, etc. Writing will barbell: high utility for agents, high entertainment for humans. The middle dies.↗

i love writing. i never let agents write for me. whether it's docs, or tweets, or shitposts, or even prompts (okay maybe that one's harder as agents manage other agents) there's a simple reason for that: i still strongly believe that writing is thinking. it's a skill i hope to…↗

I now type "use big pictures and few words" several times a day↗

A few days ago, Anthropic shared this brilliant prompt. I was surprised by how it significantly improved writing with Fable 5.1. Even more surprising, it also improved writing for GPT-5.6 Sol. I have it as a rule everywhere I use AI for editing/writing.↗

I tried asking myself what I'd learned after 40, and it turned out to be a lot of the most important stuff I know. At least 90% of what I know about startups, because I was 40 when we started YC. Plus everything I know about parenting and most of what I know about writing.↗

Usually the more of a skill I've handwritten, the better it is Paying attention to each word as you write it is unreasonably effective↗

The most important component of writing clearly is simply to have high standards for clarity. Then if you write something unclear, you notice, and ask: what did I mean to say? You can just keep doing this over and over. And if you have high standards for clarity, you will.↗

here is our full Opus 4.7 vibe check we broke down how it performs on coding, writing, spreadsheets and more: every.to/vibe-check/opu…↗

a brief refresher on how to write easily-forwardable emails↗

Bearing witness to the incredible heroics of @joshm and @hursh inspired me to write something reflecting on our industry: Creating Something from Nothing docs.google.com/document/d/119…↗

Tips on writing: How to Write Usefully: paulgraham.com/useful.html The Age of the Essay: paulgraham.com/essay.html Write Like You Talk: paulgraham.com/talk.html↗

I re-visit this lesson on writing structure every 3-4 months. Gold:↗

In 2022, I somehow made $249k doing things I loved When I quit my job in 2017, I only did freelance consulting until I fell in love with writing. I decided to secretly stop trying to make money and just write, living on very little I can't believe it worked. Some reflections👇↗

If you’re a writer, this is one of the most useful ChatGPT prompts:↗

most people's writing is boring, or too complicated. here's 7 things that will make you a better writer. Let's start with the most non-obvious tip:↗

Over the next 2 weeks, I'm sharing 4 short essays on my writing experience. At the end, @david_perell & I are doing a live writing workshop and will try to convince you to take Write of Passage, like I did. Sign up to get the emails (first one tomorrow): not-boring.ck.page/wop↗

The world's most valuable skill: Writing effectively. But colleges charge you 120k and still do a terrible job teaching it. Instead, here are 9 writing frameworks that cost you nothing and will save you hundreds of hours:↗

THREAD: 10 significant lies you're told about the world. On startups, writing, and your career:↗

Lessons on the Writing, Distribution and Newsletters. Synthesized from the webinar between @lennysan and @david_perell Lenny grew his newsletter to 28,000+ free subscribers and 1200+ paid subscribers generating a 6 figure income Truly 1000 true fans. - Time for a Thread -↗

best two business bios you've ever read?↗

For anyone thinking about taking Write of Passage with @david_perell, here are ten tangible benefits: 1/Building a good information collection system. This system allows me to write from abundance and drastically reduce writers block.↗

14 Ideas on How to Grow Your Business by Writing (THREAD) Ideas are all from @shl and @david_perell Notes below 👇 youtu.be/grXrGaT7DLw↗

I recently spent $1,000 on an online writing class. ✏️ Coughing up that sum of cash was not an easy choice. But I learned more in five weeks than I did in four years of college. Here are some of the key takeaways @levnaginsky and I came away with: …↗

Checklist for online writing: • Remove every unnecessary word • Focus on clarity, not cleverness • If a sentence bores your reader, delete it • Make your reader smarter • Treat every word like it’s on trial for its life • Write like you’re talking to a friend at a bar↗

"I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read. My principle in researching is "Read like a butterfly, write like a bee", and if this story contains any honey, it is entirely because of the quality of the nectar I found in the work of better writers." — Philip Pullman ✨↗