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Clint Wrede's avatar

Your "reading recklessly" puts me in mind of the author Alan Jacobs's "read at whim" in his book The Pleasures of Reading In An Age of Distraction. I'll be curious to see whether the ideas are similar.

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vs's avatar

I'm grateful for your first 185 words because they describe the whizzing journey of me starting a newsletter so reinforcing the end lesson: no regrets ever.

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Heloisa Lupinacci's avatar

800 words look good. I’d update the lenght-constraint number and then cancel fail #1.

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Adam Sternbergh's avatar

And I never even explicitly stated what Fail #2 was! Which I guess is Fail #3?

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Andrew Braithwaite's avatar

Unfortunately Adam I've spoken with accounting and we're going to have to count all 6x words of "Which I guess is Fail #3?" against Fail #1 ...

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