The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

Really, really good writing.

And so one thing I would love to recommend to people is this book I've been reading called The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker.

It's a book about writing.

And it's a kind of a style guide to the classical sense of writing, which is like its own style on its own.

It reveals exactly who Google views as the early adopters of this technology.

Let's list the five specific giveaway titles: The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, Breath by James Nestor, The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker, Food Rules by Michael Pollan, and Hit Makers by Derek Thompson.

Wanna deeply analyze this curation.

Why these specific five books?

The AI visually maps that cycle.

For a reader actively trying to break a destructive habit or build a positive one, seeing that psychological loop visualized and populated with specific data points rather than just described in linear text could be the crucial catalyst for actual behavioral change.

And then you have Steven Pinker is The Sense of Style, which is a rigorous guide to writing well, and Derek Thompson's Hit Makers, which delves into the science of popularity and cultural economics.

You could use the Q&A feature to ask Pinker's book to analyze a sentence you just wrote to see if it violates his rules of syntax or interrogate Thompson's book to synthesize the common traits of viral hits across different decades.

I just mean on the other side, in, in a, in a cultural context shaped still by Christianity.

Like in the book Uh, Odysseus is trapped on the island with the nymph Calypso for, what, seven years? And, you know, she sleeps with him every night, but he's said to be crying, longing for Penelope.

So however that works in the original audience that...

But, you know, Odysseus is supposed to be this, this complicated figure, depending on how you translate the opening line.

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And you know, they're all...

It's just, the, the thing about Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" is I think even if the books had never existed, you would, you would feel drawn to that story.

You would feel drawn to those characters.