Abraham Kim @abrahamKim

Hipsters talk more than Boomers these days.

Abraham Kim last shared their writing nobody famous enough
Marc Love was surprised to learn that Drew had a phD from  Cambridge . Not because Drew didn't seem smart but because he was here now in America working as a cashier at a grocery store. Love wanted to ask how he came to do that but didn't want to...
Abraham's Pantry
🧇 53 Waffles
🍫 56 Chocolate Bars
🍪 43 Cookies
🥃 40 Whiskeys
🍊 35 Tangerines
☕️ 61 Coffees
🍺 54 Beers
🥟 49 Dumplings
🍍 55 Pineapples
🍵 46 Teas
🍣 53 Sushis
🥓 44 Bacons
🥚 42 Eggs
🥩 37 Steaks
🍓 47 Strawberries
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Writing Driven Development
What do you want in your Launchpad?

Usually the home page is called a landing page. This term fits marketing/sales sites better than a webapp you visit regularly. For a website trying to sell you a product the landing page acts as a funnel attempting to captivate you into. At the least it should make you want...
2021-04-16 19:55:11

Documenting Adagia
What makes writing on Adagia difficult

Observing the gap between what people wish to write and what they do, I'd argue writing is difficult anywhere. But in this snippet I will share what makes it difficult on this website in particular.

I wrote about three modes of writing I believe precede any successful writing project.

Notebooking with...
2021-04-16 13:46:20

Abe's Blog
Three Modes of Writing

These past four weeks I've thought a lot about the different phases/modes of writing. Currently I'm focused on three of them:

Notebooking / Journaling No defined goal or directionJotting down observationsNo rules
FreewritingThere is a direction (write about idea Z)No scoped form. You don't know yet if it will be a novel or...
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2021-04-16 13:00:52

Abe's Blog
Copy

Intellectually I've been a big fan of online cohort based learning clubs. But in action I've never thought they were good for me. Their value propositions never appealed to me. But this club shared by dealingwith in The Echo and Narcissus Writing Club...
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2021-04-15 17:16:18

Abe's Blog
The Writer's Perspective as reply to Awkward Silence

If the writing is what makes someone a writer, then I think a requirement to sustaining the habit is the perspective Keni mentions:

... on any given day and all I had to do was focus on [a topic]. A comment, a question, a movie or an incident in a day...
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2021-04-14 16:46:06

200 Words a Day
Initial Elation

Most of us met on 200WordsADay.com. Using a single word to describe 200WAD then it'd be optimistic.

I was elated to discover a gathering of people I could've never imagined before. Up until then online communities meant either Facebook or Reddit. Facebook was still based on the people I knew...
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2021-04-13 15:16:09

Abe's Blog
Routine in a routine-less place

While visiting my parents' I found myself not taking my usual morning walks. We take a daily walk here in the middle of the day. It's a big time investment. About 1.5-2 hours. So I guess for awhile I've held off on any walking of my own until my mom,...
2021-04-12 16:58:20

Pinging

One thing I've found beneficial from writing is how it provides a live connection with the people you write beside. We might not always have something to say for every post, but when I do get to talking to them, having been writing makes it feel like we can just...
2021-04-12 01:58:50

Documenting Adagia
Compartmentalize

One thing I realized when I finally converted Becoming Abe's project-type from a collection to a memoir was how absurd it is have a single all encompassing memoir series. I realized this only when confronted with the UI that asked my target length. The highest allowed was 12K words. 

My initial...
2021-04-09 15:00:35

The Importance of Organic Food
Money doesn't grow in dirt

Even today my mom cuts napkins in half before placing them into the rack. One time when we were running low I had replaced them myself. Few seconds later she was already hovering over the dining table with her scissors dutifully mutiplying our napkin 2x before anybody could use any. 

Her...
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2021-04-09 14:37:58