words

Second prompt for this new season of /words:

Is writing your livelihood, or part of it?

If you want to get more specific:

-What kind of writing do you do?
-How do you think about the value of writing + editing on Farcaster?
-How can crypto fund high-quality writing sustainably? 

Please respond with either a comment below or via quote cast here in the channel, whichever you prefer. ✍️

While writing isn't my livelihood, it has served as an important foundation for my thinking. As the literary critic Walter Benjamin has written, “Speech conquers thought, but writing commands it." 

Writing is a means to structure my thinking, and it thus indirectly influences both my professional and personal pursuits to a significant extent.

As I'm taking a year-long sabbatical at the moment while travelling Latin America with my wife, I'm not doing any serious writing at the moment. 

But I occasionally pen some longform essays about crypto culture on my blog:

While writing isn't my livelihood, it has served as an important foundation for my thinking. As the literary critic Walter Benjamin has written, “Speech conquers thought, but writing commands it." 

Writing is a means to structure my thinking, and it thus indirectly influences both my professional and personal pursuits to a significant extent.

As I'm taking a year-long sabbatical at the moment while travelling Latin America with my wife, I'm not doing any serious writing at the moment. 

But I occasionally pen some longform essays about crypto culture on my blog: https://mirror.xyz/buffets.eth