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CJ Quines's avatar

relational dance dance » oh, i heard jackie liu give a talk about relational dance dance last month! it was pretty good

chat features and targeted edits quite helpful, whereas having ai suggest new ideas never feels great » yeah true

i have >1k subscribers » CONGRATULATIONS!!! you're so popular and the things you write are good

Sirena's avatar

i love perfect blue!!! so happy you watched it :D

i love these quarterly updates - u have such good recs

connie's avatar

Felt on the I could’ve posted my substack more publically but I feel like I need a degree of anonymity to write truthfully v. going viral on twitter

connie's avatar

Slower growth was better for me to grow into my voice over time!

vincent huang's avatar

yee agree it feels important when younger + getting started!

connie's avatar

yeah! I also think there's a slight difference in my audience on my twitter which is kind of professional oriented while my newsletter is more feelings oriented

Kenneth Sun's avatar

glad ur less sad now!! / convinced me to watch knives out 3 / excited for ur short stories and i agree w ur assessment on lack of ‘literary science fiction’ question mark?

Yoyo is defocusing ultrasound's avatar

I am happy to meet you at your monthly pilgrimage to palo alto

Bilal Khan's avatar

if you haven't seen it yet i liked Jia Zhangke's caught by the tides

gray's avatar

Yippee !!!

ubermensch's avatar

this shit is amazing i love reading your updates. i have no idea how you read so much and watch so much. are you like reading for 4 hours a day or something? when you read, do you often skim and skip around in the book? i dont skip around that much but i only read like 1 book a month lmao (i read maybe 1 hour a week)

Kasra's avatar

I have similar questions

vincent huang's avatar

wait out of the 7 things i listed only 1 of them is a real book. the rest are all papers / stories / docs under a few thousand words

i do skip around a lot when watching movies / shows though bc of impatience

Kai's avatar

i looove perfect blue

do you feel like the kind of stories youre drawn to writing are like ted chiang esque or is there some slightly different thing youre going for (wondering bc i guess "psychologically driven sci fi that avoids dystopia or fantasy" feels super ted chiang to me, so maybe i recommend if you havent read him?)

vincent huang's avatar

i actually strongly dislike ted chiang because i find his characters uncompelling HAHA

Kai's avatar

oh that's v fair i guess his stuff is super not character driven