Writing that moves

I write a lot about Product on this newsletter, but that hasn't always been the case. If you include all the emo rants about despair, dreams, heartbreaks & book reviews on my obscure personal blog, then I published the very first such piece about ten years ago. I'd like to think that I'd be a struggling writer if I had never been in tech!


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.thomastheproductguy.net/writing-that-moves

(Not sure why I couldn’t comment directly on the post like before… And I’m not sure I’m on the right place now either haha…)

I may not read all of your posts but sometimes I do read once in a while or at least some parts of them, (most of the time directly from the emails sent to me), and many times I find them lovely, like this one. Or in a way it can be considered “being moved” as how you said it and want it to be :).

I think you are definitely a good writer. Although to me “good” doesn’t necessarily means “moved”, your writing anyway does move me sometimes, in a sense that - maybe can be described as: I can imagine what kind of person you are from your writing, or at least the tendency where you are heading to as a person :), and I like it. There’s the thinking behind, and there’s the form you put them in. For the thinking, I often find the topics or details worth thinking about/contemplate on. For the form, although I’m not a writer myself and although I don’t really enjoy/able to make sense of too-abstract art, I can tell when I read something with ‘good aesthetic’. I think you have the content or the essentials, or at least trying to dive into deeper layers underneath, and you definitely pursue the beauty, or at least it feels like beauty to me.

(And duh, LLMs! sick of them already)

Well yeah… just an evening after school reading your post and felt like leaving some encouragement. Wish you a new year with even more good/moving pieces :slight_smile: !

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Aww, thank you. And you’re in the right place. I just replaced the built-in newsletter comment functionality in favor of Discourse comment threads. It’s meant to be an entry point for this community where we share more stuffs. I’m glad you found your way here.

Thanks for the kind words. And I think you’re right, there’s the idea, and there’s the form that embodies the idea. I often stumble upon interesting thoughts, but a writing something good around them is more difficult, very similar to the process of product design where we iterate a form so that it fits into the right context.

I just came back after lunch, feeling energized, partly thanks to your comment! Happy new year and good luck with your study!

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