Say something honest (how to)

writing advice for the modern intellectual

The truth is, saying the right buzzwords and triggering the pattern recognition, either in the “algorithm” or in the vague notion of the average reader on whatever platform you’re on, to provoke a reaction, doesnt work. You can tick off all the boxes all day and it wont make the magic happen. There are two internets. There are two kinds of “writing”, two universes of writing. This was also the case before the internet. “The internet”, that is, social media post 2007, merely formalised it.