Ok so I get that it could be quiet
difficult to write sentences which
must be of a fixed length. However
hyperbolically calling it the most
scarily/stunningly linguistic feat
is ridiculous in the extreme. I am
certain that a person sufficiently
motivated, could produce a similar
document. Comparing something like
this to the work of Mozart is just
nonsense. I mean, I couldn't write
a piece of music like Mozart if my
life depended on it.
I don't live in SF but have visited a few times. I would be incredibly angry if someone arbitrarily decided to add a whole bunch of noise into my environment for no good reason. However "interesting" the noise may be to some people, having to deal with it in my daily life would be awful! I cannot comprehend how a person or group could be allowed do something like that.
Its a question of tolerances, if they break when someone stands on them they there is a decent chance they will break when you sit on them, or sit down too fast, or sit on them on uneven ground that distributes slightly too much weight to one leg, or they have been in the sun too long and have become brittle.
I'm a relatively tall guy and am wary sitting on these, standing on them would be certain failure. They are essentially cheap trash that will spend ~12 months looking like a chair and 500 years looking like a broken chair in a landfill.
Completely agree, he rambles all over the place with no clear narrative arch. And he completely failed to build any rapport by making weird comments about the shows logo and his lack of engagement with Joe at the start. Given he knew he was going to have 2+ hours to make his points, and the audience was going to be several million, he should have considered his approach far better.
>>"Corín Tellado was a Spanish author who wrote over 5,000 books in her 81-year lifespan. That’s over sixty books a year, assuming she came out of the womb fully literate. She claimed she could write a book in two days, and I’m inclined to believe her."
Crazy. I was going to mention that her time would have been better spent writing 1 good book rather than 5000 that (I assume because I have never heard of her name before) were mediocre. Quality over Quantity.
Then I thought, perhaps writing brought her joy regardless of how well received the final book is, so she spent her time well by making herself happy doing what she loved. Be happy in your work.
Then I though, jesus 60 books a year, that sounds like she was manically driven to write almost non-stop for her entire life, which is awful. Work will set you free.
Roughly 20% make it to 90.
And around 1% make it to 100.
The road curves steeply at the end!