# The Driftless

> Essays from an untouched corner of the internet.

## Recent Posts

- [Finding Your Creative Signature](https://paragraph.com/@driftless/finding-your-creative-signature): Why it's not really possible
- [Is There Objectively Good Writing?](https://paragraph.com/@driftless/is-there-objectively-good-writing): On finding the beauty in what's already there
- [Touching Snow](https://paragraph.com/@driftless/touching-snow)
- [Melville and His MFA by Sea](https://paragraph.com/@driftless/melville-and-his-mfa-by-sea): On the stepping stones to greatness (and why they look like failure)
- [The Daemon in the Machine](https://paragraph.com/@driftless/the-daemon-in-the-machine): On writing platforms, genius, egregores, and AI
- [Writing Through Denial](https://paragraph.com/@driftless/writing-through-denial): A history of starting and quitting platforms
- [Why Artists Can't Get Paid](https://paragraph.com/@driftless/why-artists-cant-get-paid): A list of problems without easy solutions
- [Fiction in the Age of the Phone](https://paragraph.com/@driftless/fiction-in-the-age-of-the-phone): Why no one reads fiction on their phone and what fiction writers can do about it
- [Farcaster is a Car](https://paragraph.com/@driftless/farcaster-is-a-car): Thoughts on growing a new social media protocol
- [Why You Should Not Set Goals](https://paragraph.com/@driftless/why-you-should-not-set-goals): Instead of relying on objectives, search for what's interesting
- [Curator Economy, Not Creator Economy](https://paragraph.com/@driftless/curator-economy): Toward a new publishing model
- [In Praise of Going Slow](https://paragraph.com/@driftless/in-praise-of-going-slow): /10 Thinking
- [Is There an Ideal Writing Pace?](https://paragraph.com/@driftless/ideal-writing-pace): What does it mean to be a fast or a slow writer?
- [Against the Creator Economy](https://paragraph.com/@driftless/against-the-creator-economy): A manifesto for failure

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