Reading from the Book of Miessler

Since the beginning of citizen journals, back in the time of Live Journal and Geocities, reading text gave me a direct route to thoughtful people. Daniel Miessler, in his post Text is Thought, and Thought is Holy reverberates this essential truth.

I value text because I see it as one step away from thought.

I believe thinking is the one thing we should be careful not to outsource, and I worry what this idea smuggles in is a major steip toward making our creations opaque to humans. Not just AI’s creations, but ours as well.

The reason I value Paul Graham s much is because of the idea compression work that goes into writing super clean prose. It’s difficult to write clearly because it requires thinking clearly.