Perspective: How to be the smartest person in every room (or, at least, sound like you are).
Writer-brain person: Yes, but does it have rigor?The most fun part of using revise is when you completely alter the meaning of a simple sentence with out-of-context but still grammatically correct substitutions. It’s like someone asking for hot tea, and you giving them a warm cup of bone broth instead.
For instance, the next time you go to Jiffy Lube, tell them that you think your oil needs to be revised.A hallmark of BIGBRAINBOYNESS is a general cynicism about the world. Only the regular-brained have the space to possess optimism, because the BIG BRAIN BOY subscribes to the Atlantic, still has a pandemic beard and isA great way to communicate this nihilism is to refer to aggressively unterrible things as either “grim” or “dire.
“I was unable to scale the prompt, because the rigorous heft of the edit was just too grim of a lift.”One of my favorite discoveries of the past several years is learning how a slight alteration of the use of “brave” makes people want to donate my brain to science. Or maybe it just makes them want to kill me. Either way, I discontinued my use of the simple-brain “brave” to make space for the big-brain “brave” .