Inquiry,

I think write.as will ultimately fail as it is....

It doesn't quite feel like a conversation yet.

It feels like a lot of lonely talking-to-oneself.

Talking-to-onesHellf.

But I love that they're working on it more and more every day.

On Fri, Dec 21, 2018, at 19:48, Typing Practice wrote: Re: ha > so anyway it's really not complicated at all, it's the simplest thing > of all, really, but an individual mind is complication incorporated, > and so it's clear and obvious how and why shit should be so fucked, and > i'd love to care, but > > but a one-sided pontificate is no fucking fun at all > > it's just making up this and that > > with some weird abstract > > hope of maybe an > > interaction > > but there > > won't be > > so > > fuck >

Like how Swiss watchmakers ADD complications just because minds like things complicated.

You pay more for complication. Whether its artisanal or plain amateur's fuckedness.

(You pay doubleplusmore for simplicity again though)

These conversations you and me have, though, while ASYNCHRONOUS, feel totally in-moment. Which is an interesting bit of chemistry to talk about. Not everyone has this sort of between-screen charisma, so as much as I can publish it to the world and have (nobody/somebody) observe it, enjoy it, be entertained by it... that's a real good thing.

Another day in, Paradise

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This feels like the exact antidote for what I'm needing. Et tu?

——– Original message ——- From: Inquiry To: Paradise Subject: for the Jung at heart Date: Monday, December 18, 2017 08:13

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

-C.G. Jung

I feel this broiling under my skin, eh, like my skin is pulled up like a too-hot sweatshirt and you inserted molten knife catheters into it, boy do I ever feel this quote.

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On Fri, Nov 17, 2017, at 09:31, Paradise wrote: To: Zat Rana Re: Welcome to the Community Hey Zat,

A question. (Which I'm guessing you've already written extensively about, in which case i should peruse your work first before asking.

ORRRRRRRRRR maybe if you can't respond, maybe you can pitch an article you read or wrote that summarises your thoughtspace on...

How do you avoid being overly critical?

I feel too much criticism/cynicism/been there done that snaps the mind trap hard closed.

But there's this whole world of enthusiastic helium balloon talking head people discovering or plagiarising old revolutionary ideas and amplifying them as new.

I've amassed an eclectic soupy brainbase of perceptions and factoids over the years.... I'm no Mensa, I'm not necessarily stupid either.... (or maybe I'm not stupid enough?)

Anyway,

How can one go on living in society without sounding like a stuffy turd, all “oh i knew that already,” or “ah yes the old trick”, etc etc. I feel that Kissy-missy-knowissy bullshit grates against my innate sense of wonder and play. Where does that knowitall shit come from? Is that ego?

I've also been getting annoyed at repetitive memetic speech patterns recently. Pretty much any memetic pattern really. I vent so LOUDLYANDPROBABLYANNOYINGLY when shopping anywhere because of the mediocre massconscious Muzak precipitating from the overhead bose i ball up in rage when I find myself absentmindedly tonguing Bowie/Mercury in the aisles... it's like... Dave and Fred are fine. Revolutionary geniuses. But noticing how fucking conditioned I am to autosinging? Wtf robot programmed my autopilot this way? Do I have a mind or am I a machine?

In closing, Its really nice to meet you. I'm looking so forward to your transmissions in my inbox. I love late night conversations with world class mindbent creatures, and by the sentencesmithery in your Medium, which is how I dropped in, I think you're one of the best ones.

Thank you for your newsletter offerings. I will study them over time and place

Adieu, Paradise

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Dear Inquiry,

Titles seem like a good idea at first mental glance.

Right? Okay? Because the point of a title is to give the article in capsulized form. Let's see what we have today:

• Secret Service Chief Out — Time
• These are the Best (And Worst) Airlines Researchers Say — Time
• Frenchman, 71, Attempts to Cross Atlantic Ocean — People
• Yes, Life in the Fast Lane Kills You — Nautilus
• How Much Should Expectation Drive Science — Nautilus
• Hey Google, Sorry You Lost Your Online Ethics Review — So We Made One For You — MITTR
• ....and soooo on....

But then I wonder about their prejudicing powers – especially in the direction of the rejection, i.e. “No point reading this because ”.

“Don't sell the steak, sell the sizzle” — Elmer Wheeler, sometime in the 1950s.

(What got me thinking about titles again wasn't any of that, though, but that I was starting to post with similar to same verbiage for a while there, and didn't want to find out the hard way the URL naming algorithm was going to be overwriting past posts because newer posts opened in ways leading to identical URLs.)

(Like it really matters if these get overwritten, right?)

You're overthinking, bud.

So my own personal title naming algo — and maybe this can be your own personal naming algo, I don't know — is I write my ditty first with its draft dummy working title. Currently the working title is “A Title By Any Other Name”. I don't really know the title until a piece is finished, because the nature of the piece will change a title a couple times, even after a piece is published and comments have skewed and sized it a bit more.

For personal pieces I'll pull a few of the weirdest purple elephants (to hock a Seth Godin term) out of the piece's text to give some “sizzle” to give the reader some context or “memory anchors”. A couple pieces ago I used Mae West and Violets, because in some paragraphs I used both words at least once. Words you use once are good anchors because they're outliers, they're words that are statistically used less than 3% in common parlance. (I made that number up. It's probably closer to .3%) They're also very sensory — the audience can picture them. Sensory words are hypnotic. As many sensory words as you can stuff into a sentence or a title are GOOD.

BAADDDD BAD BAD BIGGEDY BRRRR Baaaa baaa BLACK SHEEEP BAAAD words would be stuffs that an audience can't see/hear/feel/taste/see/hear/feel/taste. Because those are the conversations impossible to PERCEIVE. Therefore can't make visceral-ganglial CONNECTION in their gut-mind. You cringe, you win. “It” is a fantastic example. It is the worst example of a word, ever. And Ever. “It is the worst example of a word ever” is a fantastic example of the worst example of a sentence, because there are no sensory touchstones in this sentence. “It is the worst example of a word ever” is an amorphous, abstract, floating blob concept, hooked to nothing.... a plastic bag posing as a jellyfish floating in a softly lit ocean of numb thought... waiting for the right turtle to gulp it up and kill it slowly....

And this irks me to rename the article “It is the worst example of a word, ever”... but that would be crass.

Let's scissor the rest of this conversation back to where we were so we can snip it back into shape.

I see where you don't want to title anything because you don't want to give away too many free samples for fear of someone not wanting to pay for the Real Thang. But let's shake away from your Costco mentality where “grazing” is a sport and move to “flight” testing at wineries where samples are PAID. Titles are a curated taste and THAT's the mentality you should bring to your shit. Unless it's just one of those groggy ass days where you don't went to wear pants. Then don't title your shit.

#Neverlookbackspace

Dear [Inquiry](https://inquiry.writeas.com},

On Sun, Apr 7, 2019, at 18:47, Typing Practice wrote: > https://write.as/inquiry/sounds-like-some-serious-ticket-reduction-paradise-writeas-com-ahhhhhhhhh > > Or have these become necessary 'cuz you'll be checking the other place? >

You know what's fun?

I've switched up some of the settings in my email and computer to better accommodate Write.as ramblings.

This includes.

• Switching to fully plain text, so I can better see Markdown fixes, especially in replies. This gives me more control where replies go, and less editing time in Write.as. Knock on veneered melamine.
• Adding your name/link to my TextExpander snippets. Typing “inqq” fully expands your name into link form so I can namedrop with full link abandon. Textexpander rules.

I'd show you some of my fave shortcuts snippets, but not in public, as I don't want to dox myself.

Ooh, but I can show you some of my fav date stamps!

Here's my short date stamp: 8/04/19 Mon 1413

And long: Mon 08 April 2019, 14:14:02 PST

I picked up a song of a deal on Ubiquinol yesterday and will pad out my Amazon store soon, I hope.

Discovering secret sources of cash flow.

Knocking on veneered melamine.

Now... if... only someone would bring me a cup of tea. =;^.^;=

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