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Artist, writer, part-time musician & full-time procrastinator. Also enjoys making bird noises, sweet star fruit, and pretending to be a dragon. ✦ suitcasedragon.com/links ✦ poetry editor @pwritersu.com ✦ #fractaldragon ✦ #eluthisura

This is most acute in creative fields, but the cult of “entrepreneurship” is everywhere. Not everyone can be an entrepreneur! That shouldn’t be a baseline requirement for survival. You can’t restructure the entire economy that way. People just want to get paid for doing a job they know how to do.

Josh Gondelman@joshgondelman.bsky.social · last mo.

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

Going full Gilbert and Sullivan and making my title "First Lord of the Treasury, Lord Chief Justice, Commander-in-Chief, Lord High Admiral, Archbishop, Lord Mayor, and Lord High Everything Else"

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From Procrastinating Writers United
2025
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Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.

i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake 1/