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Ep. 185: How Do I Escape Filter Bubbles?
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
The High Friction, Slow Process of Non Fiction Writers
If you study the writing techniques of acclaimed non fiction writers, they have high friction, slow systems. The historian taylor branch used a microsopt access data base to write his trilogy about martin luther king. He would go three for layers away from even what he was doing just to find all this tangential information. When i comes time to write, i can have density of information, what happened on this day and this week, and immerse myself in it,. And then write with confidence and with that iceberg below the surface of knowledge.
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