Jacob S. Dorman, PhD

Doing More with Less: Mies van der Rohe, the architect who created the look of the modern skyscraper, had a famous saying: Less is more. LLMs act like more is more. But for writing, knowing less is often more. Read the rest: bit.ly/4wUnnNO

Knowing less is more. It is weird that your AI can talk to you in many accents, yet when it comes to content, the LLMs speak the exact same anodyne language. It's like Model T Fords: you can have any color, as long as it's black. See the rest: bit.ly/3Uf3Wls

On Technical Writing with AI As AI makes written content more plentiful, generating rivers of slop in the process, it will paradoxically make good writers and editors scarcer and therefore more valuable. See the rest: bit.ly/3UK8joB

I have started a nonfiction editing business, specializing in academic writing. Publish, Don't Perish! With an editor, writing is MUCH less stressful. advantage-editing.com

On Planning Writing A lot of writing comes down to planning. You have to create a container that you can fill with inspired work, but the work itself is gradual and methodical. Successful writers plan... bit.ly/49hlF06

On Improvisation and Pace Writing is a creative act, and it can also be an improvisational one. It takes a lot of practice, of course, but the idea that writing must be agonizingly difficult or slow is just an idea, and not a very good one. bit.ly/4tRULmY

On Metaphors and Similes Metaphors and similes are often visual images that delight and communicate simultaneously. And you don’t have to wear a flouncy shirt or be a novelist to use them. bit.ly/4dLJChv

On Leaving Things Out The secret to great writing is not what you leave in but what you leave out... bit.ly/4dt01sr

On Finding Your Camels…or Holding Readers’ Interest James Campbell said something very interesting about the craft of writing: he said as a writer, you have to find your camels... bit.ly/3Rq14Rg

I started a blog on writing! Here's the first post. I literally wrote myself into existence, beginning with my name. But in a larger sense, we all write ourselves into existence whenever we publish anything under our own name... bit.ly/4eYOCBI

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Core Humanities @UNRHistory, GRI, Anthro @UNR presents @davidwengrow and "The Dawn of Everything” on March 23rd at 12 p.m. (Zoom link: bit.ly/3I2aPva) with @JakeDPhD and Christopher Morgan. bit.ly/362QU1y

When Emily went butch her nanna said "Oy! What a boichik!" But her wife of 14 yrs left. She mulched her grief into recreating the H&H bagel. NYT sez: best in USA. The story of Berkeley's Boichik Bagels, artisanal food, Silicon Valley gentrification & Jewish & queer idntty #PitMad