Leo Betschart @betschart@social.cleverlibre.org

@filmcritic
Sometimes history doesn't repeat itself. Sometimes it picks up a club and says "Weren't you listening the first time?" --#TerryPratchett

@betschart @ct_bergstrom

"Kill your darlings", as they say

@betschart @ct_bergstrom

“Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.”

(quoting a college tutor)
James Boswell • Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) 30 April 1773

https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191843730.001.0001/q-oro-ed5-00005955

@betschart @ct_bergstrom I've heard that phrased as "Kill your darlings." Some people save their murdered darlings in special files that they go to for inspiration later on. Useful if the text snippet is going on a tangent. Later on you can develop it into a full-fledged feature if it holds up.

Going through your followed accounts list and asking yourself do they spark joy

@sanjaysrivastava Now do it with your archived email.

This is the proudest moment of my career.

I fact checked Elno in a Birdwatch on his own $44 billion dollar site over his inability to understand GraphQL queries.

Sometimes it's immediately obvious.They've clearly and unequivocally improved the piece.

Other times, I don't see why they've done what they did.

Now there are two possibilities:

1) they are idiots who happened to rise to the top of their profession by pure hapless chance.

2) they know exactly what they are doing, whereas, coming from inside my field and having written the words myself, I'm too enamored of them.

This is why I accept changes from professional editors 99% of the time.

Tonight I'm working on an essay that has been through two rounds of intense editing from the very highest echelon of professional editors.

They keep cutting things I wrote. Like whole sentences. A paragraph, even.

Like WTF?

@sheldonrampton The learning process for me has been to discern when I disagree with their edits because I think they are wrong, versus when I disagree with their edits because they are theirs instead of mine.

Porting over my one hit tweet.

If a condenser wore pants, would it:
wear them like this ⬇️... or like this.⬇️

#Chemistry #Lab #Glassware #VeryImportantQuestions

In the Third Age, Sauron required all his orcs to have a unique identifier, called orcid.