Jordan Ballard
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for the New York Times, I wrote about AI invading the creative writing classroom (including students using ChatGPT for memoir assignments) and all the reasons we need to value the acts of writing and thinking on their own terms
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...
Opinion | Sorry, Sam Altman, A.I. Is Not Good at Real Writing (Gift Article)
When we let computers write our stories, we lose something essential.
www.nytimes.com
March 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
for the New York Times, I wrote about AI invading the creative writing classroom (including students using ChatGPT for memoir assignments) and all the reasons we need to value the acts of writing and thinking on their own terms
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...
Reposted by Jordan Ballard
i wrote about being at war with my own brain www.late-review.com/p/the-hairsh...
the hairshirt doldrums
on having a brain injury
www.late-review.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
i wrote about being at war with my own brain www.late-review.com/p/the-hairsh...
Reposted by Jordan Ballard
(from Mary Oliver’s ‘In Blackwater Woods’)
“To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.”
“To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.”
December 21, 2024 at 12:57 AM
(from Mary Oliver’s ‘In Blackwater Woods’)
“To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.”
“To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.”
"It is jarring, to try and live with this new molten feeling, and to realize that you'd spent the past three decades operating in just a tiny slice of the full emotional spectrum humans could access."
Rafael Nadal Found Process In Pain - defector.com/rafael-nadal...
Rafael Nadal Found Process In Pain - defector.com/rafael-nadal...
Rafael Nadal Found Process In Pain | Defector
Nadal was the destroyer of context, the man who played every point in vacuum, through comebacks and blowouts with the same equanimous mind and full effort.
defector.com
November 27, 2024 at 3:15 PM
"It is jarring, to try and live with this new molten feeling, and to realize that you'd spent the past three decades operating in just a tiny slice of the full emotional spectrum humans could access."
Rafael Nadal Found Process In Pain - defector.com/rafael-nadal...
Rafael Nadal Found Process In Pain - defector.com/rafael-nadal...
Taking too much personal / civic / historical solace in Shelton vs Tiafoe
August 31, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Taking too much personal / civic / historical solace in Shelton vs Tiafoe