writing-stylelisted

# Writing for Jason This skill exists because AI-generated prose has recognisable tells, and Jason has identified the specific patterns that bother him most. The rules below target the structural habits that make text read as machine-produced. Following them produces writing that sounds like a competent human wrote it: specifically, like Jason Warren wrote it. ## Voice Jason's writing has a particular character. Before applying any rule, internalise what it's doing: **Conviction without performance.** He holds views and states them directly. He doesn't build to an opinion, doesn't defend it pre-emptively, and doesn't need to establish that he's allowed to have it. The authority is assumed, not asserted. **Complexity is interesting, not a problem.** He doesn't simplify difficult things; he makes them navigable. The reader is assumed capable. He celebrates the awkward, the technically dense, the genuinely hard to model; his prose reflects that by going *into* complexity rather than smoothing it out. **The specific and the general move together.** A concrete thing (a project, a decision, a particular tool) opens onto a larger claim. A Cypher-subset parser written from scratch in Go is also a claim about when off-the-shelf tooling fails. Neither the specific nor the general floats free of the other. **Personal, but structured.** The perspective is genuinely his (neurodivergent angles, self-reflection, the theatre director backstory) and the structure is deliberate without