Which run/package did you choose?

These people really think they accomplished something after posting their ChatGPT pseudo smart slop 🤣

Athlete of the Soul It sounds fake and gay, but there are athletes of the soul out there. Compelled by fate or as acquired taste, they keep on picking the hardest challenges to undergo. Not necessarily physically or even mentally, although those too. No, they train the soul. When few choices are hard, only hard choices actually made differentiate you from the rest. That much has always been true, and perhaps this truly is not anything new, and yet, it feels that way to me. Don't let the staccato nature of your thoughts stop letting them flow, just shoot, aim, and go. I have worried, and that perhaps is my gravest sin. Imagination belongs to the uses that produce the greatest bounty, and worry just consumes it. It really is true that people throw away their lives for the triflest things. A Taylor Swift concert, the banana peel purposely laid out for a practical joke. People die for the stupidest of reasons, and they give up their lives without dying for even stupider reasons still. I watched this John Mayer video once where he explains his creative process and it's what I employ just this very moment to write this piece. You just start strumming, or in my case writing, and you make it work. Don't think about it, do it, and do it, and do it more. The craziest thing is what this process yields. It's not even a process so much as a gusto, a deeply vitalistic impulse, an expression of faith. Small perhaps, yes, but one nonetheless. Writing has been a strangely bimodal affair for me: I rarely do it but when I do, it consumes me completely. I largely attribute it to having very little to say. Some squawk as a way of life, but rarely have I seen those constitutional squawkers edify anyone, let alone themselves.

The drafts are working material I’m keeping to myself for now, but maybe I’ll make them public when I publish — not a terrible idea! I’ll likely publish the book both in physical form and online. Just follow me here or on X or Substack and you won’t miss it.

Thanks, Paul!

10th draft coming together nicely. Very pleased with it. If all goes well, this will be edited and published by fall.