all sentences end with punctuation

give your thoughts a start and an end ✍️

i’ve written something every single day for almost three years now. the clearest result is that i’ve become a lot more articulate.

here’s why i think writing does that. when you arrange a thought in grammar, punctuation, and paragraph structure, you’re forced to give it a real start and a real end. a sentence opens, makes its case, and closes with a period. there’s no trailing off and the thought has edges.

speaking hardly demands that, so most people trail off. they soften every idea with “you know?”, “right?”, “i guess”, or “i think.” these are little inflections of uncertainty slapped onto the end of a thought. and the second you do that, you’ve discredited your own thought before anyone else gets the chance to.

writing is the catalyst because it trains the opposite instinct. it teaches you to commit because you can’t waffle your way to a clean period.

this matters more than it may seem, because our ideas only carry the weight we assign them. if you present a thought as half-formed, people will just receive it as half-formed. articulation is the thing that signals that a thought is worth taking seriously.

so say it like it has a start and an end. write enough, and you’ll start speaking that way too. train yourself with full sentences, and your thoughts will become full as well.

all sentences end with punctuation, after all.

today’s drops 🔎

• check out the ai science summit happening next week (forgot to link yesterday, oops)

• research internship @ cohere

• $80,000 hackathon to build with vercel and aws