in some ways, damian waynes story is that of a kid who was tiger parented and then goes to live with his white dad in america
Isabel J. Kim
@isabel.kim
USA Today bestselling author of SUBLIMATION. award winning short fiction guy. coined the term "omelas hole." the apprentice liar and the death of the world MARCH 2 2027 http://isabel.kim < website Wow if True < listen wherever pods are cast
one twelfth of this first draft is done........soon it will be one tenth.......
i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.
reproducing gender bias by blithely making this characters dad the scientist instead of his mom and only realizing afterward. im sorry women.
all the travel this summer / fall has been fun but it also has led me to feel that every time im home i have to do a mountain of laundry before immediately leaving again, lol
clickbait article about “how to get a seven figure book deal for your debut” and the first step is to be so freaked out by having your first job that you write a whole book to prove you’re not wasting your life
Data centers promise jobs but hire few people That's why I propose a law that every data center must hire 1,000 Priests of Data to worship the computers, pray to the servers, light candles, etc. The priests will boost the local economy and fill the air with the sweet sound of their Gregorian chants
much psychoanalysis to be done about the fact that I started playing a game called “Korean student simulator” about studying for the csat
real ones know that there’s a tier of job interview that is just getting coffee with a friend and then parlaying that through a bizarre Rube Goldberg machine of networking into a job offer, in which the iced coffee is actually mandatory
i think about this post all the time. you might too
if everyone buys SUBLIMATION by Isabel j Kim we can make the answer ME
qntm@qntm.org · last wk.Open question. Which science fiction author do we think was the richest/made the most money
happy chuseok everyone go get your ass one of these bad boys en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songpyeon
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imagining a saw trap but its just removing jensens phone and the two women he mentions in the interview from his vicinity and challenging him to figure out his way home
coining a new term called "billionaire brain" for instances when a billionaire says something without knowing how profoundly weird it is, because their life is so different than a normal one. Jensen Huang you may not need to fill out forms with your address, but I do.
Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · last wk.Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
@amanda.omg.lol and I spent like an hour talking about this for the pod last week trying to create a framework of how it all fits together, which this does wayyyy better than we managed
posts i wont make: newsletter aimed at debut writers about how writing multiple books is different than writing One Book, and how writing the book on contract is different than writing it on spec
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Isabel J. Kim@isabel.kim · last wk.lets hold hands and descend into the rationalism discourse pit together <3
two more ai & writing discourse article ideas titled "the process is the product" (self explanatory re: creating things) and "does anyone care about the creator of the work" (also self explanatory)(i could go into a whole mrbeast digression here too!)
A WIN FOR THE BICAMERAL MIND THEORY (this article is actually really cool)
Ryan Boyd@ryanboyd.bsky.social · last wk.NEW BRAIN DROPPED
i wrote 1000 words and sent some emails AND did some laundry dont mind me. im just the strongest person alive.
nearly 6k into the new book and im always surprised by how the guys turn out bc i always have a vision in my head of what the guys are gonna be like and then they get on the page and im like huh. little different than expected.
