Was listening to a famous tech podcast Not gonna name names but someone big here I’m 45 minutes deep Interviewer asks “What are you reading?” Interviewee says “I don’t have time to read books” Well I just wasted 45 minutes of my life Immediately turn off podcast and lose respect for interviewee I don’t have time to take advice from people who don’t have time to read books These are the same type of people who will talk about “the importance of storytelling in Silicon Valley” and they haven’t read fiction in a decade Fake smart idiots.

Suffering for your art is the moat. And most kids these days will never feel it. If you’re like me and tortured yourself for your writing pre-ChatGPT, you got out on the last chopper of ‘nam. Literally. Men used to go to war for their writing now they say “hey chat” Writing is pain and suffering and most kids these days will never know the blessing and immense joy of suffering for their writing. The best feeling in the world. In the words of Jensen, I wish you much suffering. Suffering is the moat. Source: I wrote 100+ weeks straight of my blog and wrote a book pre ChatGPT. I still don’t use ChatGPT. I never will. I like to think even when it’s painful torture which it always is. Suffering is the moat.