Paul Graham on the difference between essays and other forms of writing, what makes a piece of writing feel like an essay, and why so much published prose today isn't.
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map.simonsarris.comAgency is the capacity to act. More subtly: An individual’s life can continue, with a certain inertia, that will lead them on to the next year or decade. Most people today more-or-less know what they are going to be doing for the first twenty-or-more years of their life - being in some kind of school (the “doing” is almost more “being told what to do”).
Robin SloanRobin Sloan announces a winter pop-up newsletter called Winter Garden, drawing on Craig Mod's editorial model and his own experiments with seasonal, single-topic publishing.
