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Apple Podcast or wherever you like to listen. One of the more important things I think for writers, especially for young writers is to not let what you already know get in the way of what you need to learn.

And so to remain, like having it all figured out is a terrible position for a writer to be in, you know, because one, it's not true, it can't be true, and two, you don't know that it's not true, which makes you doubly vulnerable, you know, or poorly positioned.

And so the kind of open inquiring position is much more valuable for writers than the knowledgeable sage, you know, let me hold forth a position. That was Jollani Cobb. I'm San Francisco So. This is talk easy.

I'm San Francisco. This is Talk Easy.

Welcome to the show. Oh, I first discovered the writing of Johnny Cobb through death. On March 21st, 2012,

Jellani penned an article for the New Yorker titled Trey von Martin and the

parameters of Hope.

The piece was published less than a month after the 17-year-old was shot in the back by George Zimmerman.

We remember this murder almost as much as the trial that followed it, a different kind of crime.

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