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The act of arguing with yourself in slow motion and calling it productivity.
means To form letters, words, or symbols on a surface—or to compose text—in order to record or communicate something.
from From Old English 'writan,' which originally meant to scratch, score, or cut—because the earliest writing was carved into wood, bone, or stone rather than penned. It's related to Old Norse 'rita' and Old High German 'rizan' (to tear or scratch), all pointing back to a Germanic root about scoring a surface. So every time you 'write,' you're echoing an ancestor dragging a sharp edge across something hard.
- oldest profession
- Scribes were paid before farmers stopped chasing wheat.
- hand vs keyboard
- Writing by hand boosts memory more than typing.
- clay first
- Earliest writing tracked beer and grain debts.
- blank dread
- Hemingway wrote standing to avoid overthinking.
- rewrite truth
- First drafts exist only to be murdered later.