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Rick Rubin reveals the three completely different creative processes used by Eminem, Jay-Z, and Anthony Kiedis "Eminem will always be writing in a book, always writing all the time. I asked him, are all these rhymes used? He's like no, 99% of what I write I'll never use, just... to stay engaged in the process of writing" "Jay-Z doesn't write anything down. He listens to the beat, hums, then goes on the mic 20 minutes later and just says a whole complicated verse. No paper, no writing, nothing" "Anthony Kiedis sings along with an idea of a melody but he doesn't yet have words, just nonsense words automatically real time, then listens back and says this phrase sounds good. It's like a puzzle"show more

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Conor Neill: "If you can't write it clearly, the thinking was weak, not the writing" "To believe that something that feels clear in your head is thinking that's a very dangerous thing. When you try to put it down on a page, when you try to lay out your ideas in a structured order that someone else can digest, and you realize that you can't, I suggest the thinking was weak, not the writing." Neill explains his philosophy: "Writing is thinking. The process of taking a notepad, capturing thoughts, laying out the things that I'm thinking about, that is thinking. Sitting and staring out a window, maybe with a cigarette, whatever it is that you think is philosophizing that is not structured thinking. It's only when you're writing down and structuring, getting order into your thoughts on a page so that another person is able to get into the context, the perspective, the different things that you are pulling in to have your worldview." He shares a simple technique: "No matter what you are writing, whether it's an email, a Word document, when you've got a blank sheet of paper, start with the word 'This.' T-H-I-S. Starting with the word 'This' forces you to explain what the document is. It forces you to articulate to the reader what it is that they are holding. It forces you to describe why this document exists, what the objective is. And if you begin with the objective, it helps the reader, and it helps you articulate clearly why you are taking the time to write." Neill shares the most-read post on his blog: "The one post that has got far more views than any other is a post I wrote called 'Why Amazon Banned PowerPoint.' In Amazon, if a presenter wishes to ask people to agree to a budget, to agree to give them resources, they don't use PowerPoint. They write a six-page Word document that states why they are asking for the money and the resources." He explains Jeff Bezos's reasoning: "PowerPoint is easy for the presenter, but it's hard for the people who listen. Writing a six-page essay is hard for the presenter, but it's a lot easier for the people that get to read the document." And there's a second part to the Amazon method: "In the management meeting, the first 20 minutes is reading time. If you have gone to the effort to write six pages explaining your proposal, you deserve to see your work read. You deserve to sit there and see people reading through your work. People will not read before the meeting. The only way you get people to fully digest the six pages is by holding them there for 20 minutes, reading through, noting down their questions. No debate, no discussion until everyone in the room has read all six pages, has taken in the context, has time to think about what they would like to question. After 20 minutes of silent reading, they can have a discussion but an informed discussion." Neill shares a second insight about writing: "Divide writing from editing. Writing is producing words. Editing is improving words. These two processes — you cannot run at the same time." He explains his approach: "Most writers just vomit out a bad first draft. I personally have learned to produce 500 words in one straight blast. If something's wrong, if I need to check a fact, if I want to go back and fix something, I don't. I go 500 words of just getting it out onto the page. When I've got 500 words, then I'll stop and begin the process of editing." Neill shares what great writers understand: "All great writing is rewriting. It's editing. It's the crafting of taking a bad, crappy first draft and slowly iterating it, improving it 1% each time through. But if you haven't got that first draft, there's nothing to improve." He explains how separating these processes changed everything: "Learning to separate these two was one of the most powerful things to get rid of writer's block, to get rid of getting stuck, to get rid of procrastination. My mission when I sit down to write is: decide, am I writing or editing? If it's writing, get 500 bad words down on the page in the next 20 minutes. If it's editing, take the time to go through, improve sentences, change the order, change the structure. But these are two separate processes." Neill reveals the truth about good writing: "Some of my best articles started out as a bad blog post. Then I rewrote it as an article to give out to students. Then I rewrote it to share on another blog. Then I rewrote it to provide to a magazine. It's the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth time of rewriting where it starts to be something that other people read and say, 'Wow, you're quite good at writing.' And the answer is I'm not good at writing. I vomit out a bad first draft and then go through this iterative process. One time, two times, three times, four times through slowly improving. But if you have no first draft, there's nothing to improve."

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an ot5 song in 2025.. lyrics written by jjong’s hand and a whole bridge of him in the process of creation, no words or anything yet just forming a melody and letting the music flow through him.. and the rest of SHINee got together all these years later & built a whole song from

an ot5 song in 2025.. lyrics written by jjong’s hand and a whole bridge of him in the process of creation, no words or anything yet just forming a melody and letting the music flow through him.. and the rest of SHINee got together all these years later & built a whole song from

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93,237 views • 1 year ago

🐹: “While preparing for the Echo album, the most fun I had was probably while writing lyrics. 🐹: “When writing lyrics, sometimes the words just don’t come out, right?” 🐹: “So I write my lyrics on the computer, and when they wouldn’t come out, I’d think, “Okay, I’ll just play a game,” and end up gaming for like 8 or 10 hours.” 🐹: “But then, while playing, there would suddenly be a moment when I’d think, “Oh, this would be good to write!” 🐹: “Then I’d stop the game right in the middle and start writing. I have that kind of memory.” #Jin_Echo #Dont_Say_You_Love_Me

🐹: “While preparing for the Echo album, the most fun I had was probably while writing lyrics. 🐹: “When writing lyrics, sometimes the words just don’t come out, right?” 🐹: “So I write my lyrics on the computer, and when they wouldn’t come out, I’d think, “Okay, I’ll just play a game,” and end up gaming for like 8 or 10 hours.” 🐹: “But then, while playing, there would suddenly be a moment when I’d think, “Oh, this would be good to write!” 🐹: “Then I’d stop the game right in the middle and start writing. I have that kind of memory.” #Jin_Echo #Dont_Say_You_Love_Me

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12,862 views • 1 year ago

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Next up, letter E: “Empire State of Mind” #JayZ30 #JayZ Below, Angela Hunte, one-half of the songwriting duo along with Jane't "Jnay" Sewell-Ulepic, details co-writing the hit song that spent five consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the ‘Billboard’ Hot 100: “I think that when Jay-Z heard it ... I know what he heard. He heard himself, he heard his story, he heard all the stories of New Yorkers. People come to New York to win. We don't come to fail.” Hunte: “I know this sounds crazy, but you don’t know who you’re writing for. But it wasn’t until we were finished, and I was like, “This would be great for Jay-Z.’ ‘Cause you just see him and, like, a holographic picture of Frank Sinatra on the Empire State Building, and I remember that’s when the idea kind of spawned to send it.” She continues, “Jon [Platt], our publisher, took it to Jay, I believe, or however he did it ... and then I remember getting the text back like, ‘he [Jay-Z] loves this record, and he believes you just changed his life.’ If you hear the original record … it’s a beautiful song, and the fact that he heard what he could do. That’s always going to be mind-boggling to me, like he heard through that.”

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127,492 views • 29 days ago

Dame Dash says he can’t get BLACKBALLED by Jay Z because Jay would have to be bigger than him and have more power than him, he also challenged Jay Z to a Verzuz and asked Jay to stop robbing artists as everyone is broke because of Jay Z😬 Dame Dash claims his DISCOGRAPHY is bigger than Jay Z’s, he says Jay Z should have never said anything about his teeth because he has the best dentist, and Jay Z is nothing without his friends, Dame Dash also claims Jay Z didn’t get back at 50 Cent because he’s(Jay)not bigger than Eminem despite 50 Cent going at him for years, he claims when Jay Z tried to blackball 50 Cent at the superbowl Eminem just made a call😳 “A whiteman is the best at a black sport”

Dame Dash says he can’t get BLACKBALLED by Jay Z because Jay would have to be bigger than him and have more power than him, he also challenged Jay Z to a Verzuz and asked Jay to stop robbing artists as everyone is broke because of Jay Z😬 Dame Dash claims his DISCOGRAPHY is bigger than Jay Z’s, he says Jay Z should have never said anything about his teeth because he has the best dentist, and Jay Z is nothing without his friends, Dame Dash also claims Jay Z didn’t get back at 50 Cent because he’s(Jay)not bigger than Eminem despite 50 Cent going at him for years, he claims when Jay Z tried to blackball 50 Cent at the superbowl Eminem just made a call😳 “A whiteman is the best at a black sport”

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Eminem reveals the obsessive system behind his lyrics: In a rare interview, Eminem is challenged on the old saying that nothing rhymes with "orange." His response shows how his mind actually works: "People say that the word orange doesn't rhyme with anything and that kind of pisses me off because I can think of a lot of things that rhyme with orange." He explains that the trick is in the annunciation. If you take the word at face value, nothing rhymes with it exactly. But if you stretch it into more than one syllable, the whole language opens up: "You could say like 'I put my orange four-inch door hinge in storage and ate porridge with George.' You just have to figure out the science to breaking down words." When asked if he thinks about this throughout the day, his answer is striking: "Yeah, all day. I actually drive myself insane with it." What makes this more remarkable is where he came from. By his own admission, he was in the ninth grade three times and hated school. But one subject always stuck: "No matter how bad I was at school, and no matter how low my grades might have been at sometimes, I always was good at English." So he taught himself the only way he knew how. He read the dictionary. "I just felt like I want to be able to have all these words at my disposal in my vocabulary at all times whenever I need to pull them out. Somewhere they'll be stored like locked away." But the words aren't just locked away in his head. He keeps them in physical boxes filled with hundreds of scraps of paper, scribbled wherever he happens to be, including hotel notepads from Paris. The handwriting is so tiny the interviewer can barely read it, but Eminem knows exactly what each scrap says. "They're not lyrics really. They're just ideas."

Eminem reveals the obsessive system behind his lyrics: In a rare interview, Eminem is challenged on the old saying that nothing rhymes with "orange." His response shows how his mind actually works: "People say that the word orange doesn't rhyme with anything and that kind of pisses me off because I can think of a lot of things that rhyme with orange." He explains that the trick is in the annunciation. If you take the word at face value, nothing rhymes with it exactly. But if you stretch it into more than one syllable, the whole language opens up: "You could say like 'I put my orange four-inch door hinge in storage and ate porridge with George.' You just have to figure out the science to breaking down words." When asked if he thinks about this throughout the day, his answer is striking: "Yeah, all day. I actually drive myself insane with it." What makes this more remarkable is where he came from. By his own admission, he was in the ninth grade three times and hated school. But one subject always stuck: "No matter how bad I was at school, and no matter how low my grades might have been at sometimes, I always was good at English." So he taught himself the only way he knew how. He read the dictionary. "I just felt like I want to be able to have all these words at my disposal in my vocabulary at all times whenever I need to pull them out. Somewhere they'll be stored like locked away." But the words aren't just locked away in his head. He keeps them in physical boxes filled with hundreds of scraps of paper, scribbled wherever he happens to be, including hotel notepads from Paris. The handwriting is so tiny the interviewer can barely read it, but Eminem knows exactly what each scrap says. "They're not lyrics really. They're just ideas."

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12,131 views • 1 month ago

hoshi talking about their songwriting process together and eventually talking about producer woozi 😆 👤 when you were writing 96ers, how does it go? or what happens after you gather ideas? 🐯 first, woozi would have the idea, but he won't have any verses ready yet do he'd ask me, "you over there, what do you wanna talk about [for the song]? so i would be like, "since it's just the start, if they combine the both of us it'd be something like a heavy rain warning" so he'd ask me to write some lyrics down about that and i'd do it 👤 you listen to what your friend says so well 🐯 because he's the producer! and he's a proven producer, a proven one thru his bank account! it's different with a successful producer. don't you wonder why he doesn't come out on variety shows? 👤 he doesn't have to come out... 🐯 why he doesn't have brand deals? he doesn't need to! that's why i listen well. i write as asked and ask him for comments and edit it accordingly

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127,633 views • 1 year ago

#WATCH | Srinagar: On 'I Love Muhammad' row, J&K CM Omar Abdullah says, "Why is anyone objecting to this? Who can object to writing these three words? I cannot understand how these three words can be the cause of arrests. Only someone mentally unwell can make a case out of these three words. I would like the courts to set this in order. How is writing 'I Love Muhammad' unlawful?...Do other religions not write for their religious figures and Gods?...So, if that is not unlawful, how is this?"

#WATCH | Srinagar: On 'I Love Muhammad' row, J&K CM Omar Abdullah says, "Why is anyone objecting to this? Who can object to writing these three words? I cannot understand how these three words can be the cause of arrests. Only someone mentally unwell can make a case out of these three words. I would like the courts to set this in order. How is writing 'I Love Muhammad' unlawful?...Do other religions not write for their religious figures and Gods?...So, if that is not unlawful, how is this?"

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Jerry Seinfeld was offered $110 million to make one more season of his show, but he said no. Why? Dosage. Even the best things get boring when they drag on for too long. Seinfeld says: "Leave the audience wanting more." Here are his rules for comedy: 1. Talent wins: "Get good at something. That’s it. Everything else is bullshit.” 2. Embrace the difficulty of writing: The problem with writing isn’t that it’s hard. The problem is that people want it to be easy, so they run away when it gets difficult. 3. Seinfeld's writing routine: Full focus, no distractions, do it every day. 4. Want to crush your creative spirit? Aim to make something that everybody will like. 5. "If you're efficient, you're doing it the wrong way. The right way is the hard way." 6. The work never stops: Good comedians are always looking for jokes. 7. Coming up with new ideas is important, editing is important, but it's important that you don't try to do both at the same time. 8. Cut the distractions when you write. No Twitter, no Instagram, no texting, no email. Seinfeld says: “You can’t do anything else. You don’t have to write, but you can’t do anything else.” 9. Distraction is the enemy. It's not just getting distracted during writing sessions that crushes productivity. It's building a distracting life that kills people. Seinfeld skipped the admin work, skipped the speaking opportunities, and skipped all the schmoozing that famous people get into. 10. Forget about your audience: The fountain of creativity cannot flow when the judgmental eye of your audience is top of mind as you're creating. 11. Write a lot, publish a little. 12. Never stop focusing on the craft: Seinfeld says that in most TV shows, the writers spend roughly half their time working on the show and the other half dealing with nonsense. But Seinfeld and Larry David spent 99% of their time writing. Just the two of them. With the door closed. That's just a taste. There's so much more in the video below. It's a 45-minute distillation of Seinfeld's writing process. Unlike most How I Write episodes, this one is a monologue, not an interview. I've also published it on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube, and shared the links in the reply tweets.

Jerry Seinfeld was offered $110 million to make one more season of his show, but he said no. Why? Dosage. Even the best things get boring when they drag on for too long. Seinfeld says: "Leave the audience wanting more." Here are his rules for comedy: 1. Talent wins: "Get good at something. That’s it. Everything else is bullshit.” 2. Embrace the difficulty of writing: The problem with writing isn’t that it’s hard. The problem is that people want it to be easy, so they run away when it gets difficult. 3. Seinfeld's writing routine: Full focus, no distractions, do it every day. 4. Want to crush your creative spirit? Aim to make something that everybody will like. 5. "If you're efficient, you're doing it the wrong way. The right way is the hard way." 6. The work never stops: Good comedians are always looking for jokes. 7. Coming up with new ideas is important, editing is important, but it's important that you don't try to do both at the same time. 8. Cut the distractions when you write. No Twitter, no Instagram, no texting, no email. Seinfeld says: “You can’t do anything else. You don’t have to write, but you can’t do anything else.” 9. Distraction is the enemy. It's not just getting distracted during writing sessions that crushes productivity. It's building a distracting life that kills people. Seinfeld skipped the admin work, skipped the speaking opportunities, and skipped all the schmoozing that famous people get into. 10. Forget about your audience: The fountain of creativity cannot flow when the judgmental eye of your audience is top of mind as you're creating. 11. Write a lot, publish a little. 12. Never stop focusing on the craft: Seinfeld says that in most TV shows, the writers spend roughly half their time working on the show and the other half dealing with nonsense. But Seinfeld and Larry David spent 99% of their time writing. Just the two of them. With the door closed. That's just a taste. There's so much more in the video below. It's a 45-minute distillation of Seinfeld's writing process. Unlike most How I Write episodes, this one is a monologue, not an interview. I've also published it on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube, and shared the links in the reply tweets.

David Perell

84,836 views • 2 years ago

The-Dream says Ye asked him to write a hook for “All of the Lights” and then fell asleep in the studio while he was writing the fifth hook for the record 😭💀 “I’m out there just singing my ass off. I’m on the fifth hook. This negro is sleep. I was like, for real?” “The engineer hits the talkback button. B [Beyoncé] is like, “Dream, that first hook was amazing.” And that was the hook.”

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722,923 views • 2 months ago

Listed as one of the New York Times “30 Greatest Songwriters’ alive, Jay-Z breaks down the art of writing in its purest form, where rhythm leads and the words follow. “The flow comes first… then I fill it with words.” From channeling jazz like Rakim to studying the unorthodox genius of The Notorious B.I.G., it’s a masterclass in making every word hit.

Listed as one of the New York Times “30 Greatest Songwriters’ alive, Jay-Z breaks down the art of writing in its purest form, where rhythm leads and the words follow. “The flow comes first… then I fill it with words.” From channeling jazz like Rakim to studying the unorthodox genius of The Notorious B.I.G., it’s a masterclass in making every word hit.

CHILLING WITH MONIE🌹

287,841 views • 2 months ago

This is brilliant. 'I write a paragraph about why I should take a meeting.' If you should take the meeting it's easy to do, but if you start writing and you're like “I don’t want to do this,” then the meeting is a waste of time. "For the things that I think are really important when I’m like, “I got to write that paragraph, I could write 20 pages. It's easy” A lot of otherwise smart people, don't spend enough time thinking about what they're working on.

This is brilliant. 'I write a paragraph about why I should take a meeting.' If you should take the meeting it's easy to do, but if you start writing and you're like “I don’t want to do this,” then the meeting is a waste of time. "For the things that I think are really important when I’m like, “I got to write that paragraph, I could write 20 pages. It's easy” A lot of otherwise smart people, don't spend enough time thinking about what they're working on.

Shane Parrish

113,233 views • 2 months ago

Shaq says Michael Jordan is the GOAT because he never lost in the Finals 🐐 "Mike is the greatest of all time because of how he played, how he dominated, and he never lost in the finals. So, I know a lot of people going to see this like you said and 'oh, he doing this and he do that.' I played with Kobe, I know what a killer he was, but to me as a kid and going against him, then being the only guy to beat him in the playoffs for him to retire after three and then come back and get three, yeah, he was a different animal." (Via The Big Podcast )

Shaq says Michael Jordan is the GOAT because he never lost in the Finals 🐐 "Mike is the greatest of all time because of how he played, how he dominated, and he never lost in the finals. So, I know a lot of people going to see this like you said and 'oh, he doing this and he do that.' I played with Kobe, I know what a killer he was, but to me as a kid and going against him, then being the only guy to beat him in the playoffs for him to retire after three and then come back and get three, yeah, he was a different animal." (Via The Big Podcast )

NBABase

129,768 views • 3 months ago

At one point, together with Naval, Nivi wrote one of the most influential startup blogs of its time. Here is his advice on how to write well: 1. People try to write their thought process. So, what's the thought process that led them to such and such conclusion? Nobody cares about your thought process. Just give the conclusion and then support it. 2. People try to sound like they're smart. You're not smart. Just give us the answer. We don't need to fluff it up. So just write it like you're writing an email to somebody. 3. People think longer is better. No, it's not. Just write something short. I don't write emails that are longer than three sentences. And that puts the burden on the writer to figure out what the reader wants and communicate it precisely and cogently and briefly in just a few sentences. 4. You're not going to be a good writer if you're not a reader, so read some good stuff. I like to read people's tweets. Those are pretty good. I like to read some fiction, like Shakespeare or Cormac McCarthy or maybe some James Clavell. Those are good writers. And I like to watch the classics on HBO like The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, which all have great writing. If you're watching Apple TV shows and being entertained by those and think those have good writing, I can't help you. 5. For business writing, you have to get into a customer service mindset. You're there to solve their problems. You also have to get into a design mindset, which is, you have to get into the reader's head, understand their problem, and sequence your ideas in the correct order, and with the right amount of extra information that they didn't ask for, that displays that you've thought through the issue for them on their behalf, looked at the other side of the argument, and presented things to them that they didn't know that they needed. 6. You have to think about what you would want to know if you were in the other person's shoes and argue against yourself either implicitly or explicitly or just go through the thought process yourself and see if there's anything there. 7. You also just have to care about words and the order of words and the ideas that they're communicating. Like I will reread an email that I sent someone the next day just for the enjoyment of rereading the great email that I wrote.

At one point, together with Naval, Nivi wrote one of the most influential startup blogs of its time. Here is his advice on how to write well: 1. People try to write their thought process. So, what's the thought process that led them to such and such conclusion? Nobody cares about your thought process. Just give the conclusion and then support it. 2. People try to sound like they're smart. You're not smart. Just give us the answer. We don't need to fluff it up. So just write it like you're writing an email to somebody. 3. People think longer is better. No, it's not. Just write something short. I don't write emails that are longer than three sentences. And that puts the burden on the writer to figure out what the reader wants and communicate it precisely and cogently and briefly in just a few sentences. 4. You're not going to be a good writer if you're not a reader, so read some good stuff. I like to read people's tweets. Those are pretty good. I like to read some fiction, like Shakespeare or Cormac McCarthy or maybe some James Clavell. Those are good writers. And I like to watch the classics on HBO like The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, which all have great writing. If you're watching Apple TV shows and being entertained by those and think those have good writing, I can't help you. 5. For business writing, you have to get into a customer service mindset. You're there to solve their problems. You also have to get into a design mindset, which is, you have to get into the reader's head, understand their problem, and sequence your ideas in the correct order, and with the right amount of extra information that they didn't ask for, that displays that you've thought through the issue for them on their behalf, looked at the other side of the argument, and presented things to them that they didn't know that they needed. 6. You have to think about what you would want to know if you were in the other person's shoes and argue against yourself either implicitly or explicitly or just go through the thought process yourself and see if there's anything there. 7. You also just have to care about words and the order of words and the ideas that they're communicating. Like I will reread an email that I sent someone the next day just for the enjoyment of rereading the great email that I wrote.

Arjun Khemani

137,018 views • 1 year ago

Sam Altman on his method for clear thinking: "I'm a huge notetaker. I go through one of these notebooks every two or three weeks." Sam has a very specific system for thinking clearly through writing. As he puts it: "You definitely want a spiral notebook because one thing that's important is you can rip pages out frequently. I take a bunch of notes and then I clearly rip them out so I can look at multiple pages at the same time, and I can crumple them up and throw them on the floor when I'm done." On why writing matters, even with AGI: "Writing is a tool for thinking, most importantly, and I don't think that's going anywhere. It's really important that people still learn to write for this reason. In the same way that even if there's going to be less traditional coding jobs, coding is a great way to learn to think too; you should still learn to code." His perfect writing environment? "I used to think like, oh, I got to get in the perfect place, and I got to set a time. Now I will take any 11 minutes uninterrupted that I can get sitting in the back of a car, laying in bed, whatever it is." He continues: “If I had a perfect thing it would be Saturday morning with a cup of coffee and nothing scheduled. But most of it happens in short chunks in the back of a car." On his rhythm for deep work: "I'm in the office kind of non-stop all week. I have no time to think, it's just crazy packed. And then on the weekends, I have long, quiet blocks and I'm not really around people. That cycle is very important to me."

Sam Altman on his method for clear thinking: "I'm a huge notetaker. I go through one of these notebooks every two or three weeks." Sam has a very specific system for thinking clearly through writing. As he puts it: "You definitely want a spiral notebook because one thing that's important is you can rip pages out frequently. I take a bunch of notes and then I clearly rip them out so I can look at multiple pages at the same time, and I can crumple them up and throw them on the floor when I'm done." On why writing matters, even with AGI: "Writing is a tool for thinking, most importantly, and I don't think that's going anywhere. It's really important that people still learn to write for this reason. In the same way that even if there's going to be less traditional coding jobs, coding is a great way to learn to think too; you should still learn to code." His perfect writing environment? "I used to think like, oh, I got to get in the perfect place, and I got to set a time. Now I will take any 11 minutes uninterrupted that I can get sitting in the back of a car, laying in bed, whatever it is." He continues: “If I had a perfect thing it would be Saturday morning with a cup of coffee and nothing scheduled. But most of it happens in short chunks in the back of a car." On his rhythm for deep work: "I'm in the office kind of non-stop all week. I have no time to think, it's just crazy packed. And then on the weekends, I have long, quiet blocks and I'm not really around people. That cycle is very important to me."

Jaynit

640,697 views • 6 months ago

Drake would be better than Jay-Z if he wrote his own lyrics says Funk Flex !!!!! to me today on Classics with Scoop B. “Drake would be the greatest of all time if he wrote all his lyrics. Hands down better than Jay. Hands down. People can say what they want. The boy sings and the boy raps! If he didn’t get caught in that little mishap, he was the GREATEST OF ALL TIME -- records, music, parties, concerts; but since we had a little “pen discrepancy” I guess Jay-Z. He sold more than Jay-Z in tickets and everything, but Jay-Z wrote everything. Some people like to say that Jay’s a biter… No, he’s a chameleon. He’ll take something and switch it up. They all do but he’s my favorite of all time. Second? You can give me Nas, Drake… those are my top guys. Jadakiss is top five, it’s all good shit!”

Drake would be better than Jay-Z if he wrote his own lyrics says Funk Flex !!!!! to me today on Classics with Scoop B. “Drake would be the greatest of all time if he wrote all his lyrics. Hands down better than Jay. Hands down. People can say what they want. The boy sings and the boy raps! If he didn’t get caught in that little mishap, he was the GREATEST OF ALL TIME -- records, music, parties, concerts; but since we had a little “pen discrepancy” I guess Jay-Z. He sold more than Jay-Z in tickets and everything, but Jay-Z wrote everything. Some people like to say that Jay’s a biter… No, he’s a chameleon. He’ll take something and switch it up. They all do but he’s my favorite of all time. Second? You can give me Nas, Drake… those are my top guys. Jadakiss is top five, it’s all good shit!”

👑 Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson

19,619 views • 2 years ago