"I once taught students to spend time inside sentences, to wrestle with difficulty, to make productive use of their uncertainty by paying close attention to how language works on the page.
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"I once taught students to spend time inside sentences, to wrestle with difficulty, to make productive use of their uncertainty by paying close attention to how language works on the page. We once sat inside paragraphs, dwelt inside language in its richness and complexity.
"But the ease of AI has devalued language, difficulty, and the work and perseverance and focus necessary to make meaning out of words […]
"So I signed up for guitar lessons"
Hollow Body - Longreads
https://longreads.com/2026/03/26/craft-in-defiance-of-ai-peter-wayne-moe/ -
"I once taught students to spend time inside sentences, to wrestle with difficulty, to make productive use of their uncertainty by paying close attention to how language works on the page. We once sat inside paragraphs, dwelt inside language in its richness and complexity.
"But the ease of AI has devalued language, difficulty, and the work and perseverance and focus necessary to make meaning out of words […]
"So I signed up for guitar lessons"
Hollow Body - Longreads
https://longreads.com/2026/03/26/craft-in-defiance-of-ai-peter-wayne-moe/"I wanted to do something with my hands, something real, tangible, and material. Pleasure and mastery. I also wanted to retreat into a familiar role, to become a student again, and to rediscover what it means to, and how one does, learn. I hoped that, in the long hours of practicing, I might somehow cast aside the cynicism and despair overtaking my teaching and so rekindle my love of the classroom—and of life."
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