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I'll disagree, but I will go re-read it later and think about what you've said.

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Some of those 80 at my job (most of them), some not.

I do preach balance. I preach making choices and making a plan. I preach doing more to achieve more.

I don't think 17 hour days for a decade make sense. For six months, sure.

thanks for sharing your “how” and the timeline. the author of the article does neither. instead, uses imperative verb forms. doesn’t tell us about his “lean years”. Or about his hard choices. Tells us about JK Rowling’s family, and Stephen King’s. Doesn’t mention his own.

Intentionally or not, his “advice” is all commands. Stressing “this is what a writer is”

“Don’t want to do what I tell you to do? it’s ok. just means you don’t want it bad enough. that’s ok. this is really hard.”

i still think if one reads the author’s words without “reading in” one’s own story, or using some fond advice to “refactor” the article… it starts to feel unhealthy.
an “all code” equivalent a bit closer to us imo are the “all hustle” people that say to get a job a job from them, you have to show what you’ve built on GitHub in your free time. They say they only hire those people, because those are the ones that really *want* it.

maybe folks think i’m giving too much weight to his exact words, phrases, tone, style. being too closely critical of *exactly* what’s typed.

i don’t think so. <caps>he is a writer!!<\caps> LoL i trust him to use words, phrases, tone, style - as is his craft.

I think you're giving weight to them. However, you're disagreeing with those words.

That's fine.

I don't feel that way. I don't think a harsh tone is wrong. It doesn't reach all people but it does some. Just as a soft tone doesn't reach all people

it’s not just harsh. i know harsh :-) it’s detached, impersonal and uncaring. “I don’t know why it is offensive” — this is a rhetorical device, but also a lie or a reveal. A writer that doesn’t recognize these things maybe shouldn’t be advising writers?

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