Hi, I´m launching a #literary#blog trying to share stories of connection, seeking to touch the uncertainty, glory, and simpleness of our experience. Hopefully, something a little more substantial than plain written content, please share if you find it valuable 🔗👇 #WritingCommunity
A cautionary tale for those psyched about #AI.
I asked Grok how many lines there are in #Propertius' #elegies--just counting, right?
It churned up an enormous amount of irrelevant info, then gave me spectacularly wrong numbers for each of the four books, all wrapped in pompous language to make it sound authoritative.
Underrated life skill: Listening without waiting to talk. You’ll be shocked how much people tell you—if you actually let them finish. What folks want isn’t advice. It’s your attention. You don’t win people over with your story. You win them over by letting them finish theirs.
“We all long for [Eden], and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most humane, is still soaked with the sense of ‘exile’.”
—J.R.R. Tolkien, Letters
New Flash by @brecht_dp
“My daughter, Chiara, turns five today. I get up when it’s still dark because, if I wait until after the Tuscan sun rises, it will be too hot to bake a cake.”
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