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One of the best ways to improve your writing is to find a brilliant author who nobody knows about.
Read all their work, summarize it, build upon it, and you’ll have people saying “wow, I’ve never seen anything like this before.”
Read all their work, summarize it, build upon it, and you’ll have people saying “wow, I’ve never seen anything like this before.”
I’ve been reading Lewis Mumford who exemplifies these ideas perfectly.
He studied how technology transformed culture, with a focus on cities and machines. Though he was once influential, his ideas have been forgotten. And now, I’m going to translate them for the Internet age.
He studied how technology transformed culture, with a focus on cities and machines. Though he was once influential, his ideas have been forgotten. And now, I’m going to translate them for the Internet age.
We should value originality, but not so much that we ignore the wisdom of those who came before us.
You do the world a great service when you synthesize the ideas of brilliant people who came before you. And when you write about their work, you find ways to build upon it too.
You do the world a great service when you synthesize the ideas of brilliant people who came before you. And when you write about their work, you find ways to build upon it too.
