Tag: creative process

The Case for Ordinary Proof (And Why AI Can’t Fake the Chair)

The short essay that started all of this is on Medium. The 3-minute version is on YouTube.

In 2026, the detail you’d cut is the detail that earns. Here’s why.

Why the smallest details in personal writing are doing the most work — and why most writers, including me until recently, have been ignoring them.

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Via Negativa: The Ancient Mental Model That Cures Modern Distraction

The fastest way to improve a system isn’t adding the right thing. It’s removing the wrong one.

This is the core principle of via negativa — and it may be the most powerful mental model for focus and productivity that most people have never applied.

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, the company was forty days from bankruptcy.… Read the rest “Via Negativa: The Ancient Mental Model That Cures Modern Distraction”