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"A.I. is going to radically change content marketing." Ryan Law of Animalz

The Cutting Room

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How to Apply Pressure to Ideas

I came across this idea which is like lodged in my head ever since it's, you probably heard of like straw manning an argument. It's basically the process of trying to articulate the opposition's viewpoint as strongly and clearly, and eloquently as you possibly can. And when I came across that I realized that was how you make good persuasive writing. You have to inhabit the role of a very critical reader every time you're writing something. So yeah, I spend a lot of time just reading back the things I've read the ideas I've had"

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