One of the things I really liked about Good Work was how memoir-forward and personal it was. Maybe I'm just projecting, but I think that's a microcosm of a broader shift that is platform-agnostic. There's a sort of information fatigue, probably a function of AI, that has permeated the internet. A lot of cognitive labor is involved in par…
One of the things I really liked about Good Work was how memoir-forward and personal it was. Maybe I'm just projecting, but I think that's a microcosm of a broader shift that is platform-agnostic. There's a sort of information fatigue, probably a function of AI, that has permeated the internet. A lot of cognitive labor is involved in parsing out whether ideas and information are even human-generated, let alone if they're coming from a place of genuine curiosity or are transactional/outcome-oriented. Most of what I've felt compelled to read lately has been like Good Work - personal, story-focused, emotionally resonant. I'm bullish on memoir and memoir adjacent-stuff, whether long- or short-form, because it brings ideas to life in a meaningful and impactful way that can't be faked (or at least not convincingly so).
Yeah I agree. I’ve also been drawn to history and historical fiction (which is probably more “real” than a lot of nonfiction) but also writing that I’ve been calling “memoirish”
One of the things I really liked about Good Work was how memoir-forward and personal it was. Maybe I'm just projecting, but I think that's a microcosm of a broader shift that is platform-agnostic. There's a sort of information fatigue, probably a function of AI, that has permeated the internet. A lot of cognitive labor is involved in parsing out whether ideas and information are even human-generated, let alone if they're coming from a place of genuine curiosity or are transactional/outcome-oriented. Most of what I've felt compelled to read lately has been like Good Work - personal, story-focused, emotionally resonant. I'm bullish on memoir and memoir adjacent-stuff, whether long- or short-form, because it brings ideas to life in a meaningful and impactful way that can't be faked (or at least not convincingly so).
Yeah I agree. I’ve also been drawn to history and historical fiction (which is probably more “real” than a lot of nonfiction) but also writing that I’ve been calling “memoirish”