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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.↗

·@omarsar0·Sep 8, 2026·workflow·anthropic·fable-5-1·gpt-5-6-sol·prompt

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.↗

·@paulg·Jul 29, 2026·person·parenting·reflection·startup·writing

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.↗

·@paulg·Jun 3, 2026·essay·clarity·editing·writing

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👇↗

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:↗

·@ShaanVP·Feb 2, 2022·essay·communication·tips·writing

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:↗

·@dickiebush·Jun 15, 2021·tutorial·education·frameworks·productivity·writing

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 ✨↗

·@neuranne·Nov 14, 2019·essay·creativity·research·writing