Agalia Tan
- By pausing, opening an app or a notebook or pulling my sleeve up to write an idea on my arm (something I do a lot), and committing that idea to memory - that act itself breathes life into not just the idea but into my conception of self as an artist, a writer, a person who takes his own ideas seriously.
Writing things makes them real. The stuff of s... See more “in this version though, a lot of your story is written by others. You write your autofiction about yourself and others write their fictions about you, often anonymously, on Substacks, subreddits, messageboards like Lolcow, on Twitter and Instagram and podcasts too, and this makes things different from what has come before. The lives of these perso
... See moreInexperienced writers tend to seek the recipes for writing well. You buy the cookbook, you take the list of ingredients, you follow the directions, and behold! A masterpiece! The Never-Falling Soufflé!
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Wouldn’t it be nice? But alas, there are no recipes. We have no Julia Child. Successful professional writers are not withholding mysterious secrets ffrom Ursula K. Le Guin on How You Make Something Good in Creative Work by Maria Popova
By the eighteenth century, a new ideology was taking form, especially in Britain, that “greed is good” (to use a recent summary formulation), because greed spurs a society’s efforts and inventiveness. By giving vent to greed, the logic goes, societies can best harness the insatiable ambitions, great energies and ingenuity of their citizens. While g
... See morefrom The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions by Jeffrey D. Sachs
when creating vector, i thought of...
the zine theme is bypassing the invisible hand. When Adam Smith first came up with the metaphor of the invisible hand of the market, he was referring to how individuals acting in self-interest could promote good for the public. But what this was also an argument to allow market forces to play out.
Today, the invisible hand has our heads turned, and has placed efficiency on a pedestal. What results is a society characterised by clockwork.
Everything is clockwork.
- The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
what "living life to the fullest" looks like and advice for when you wanna start something
- Being rich is nice, but what you really want to optimize for is (1) an income that exceeds your spending by a healthy margin and (2) a lifestyle that is free from rushing
- Do the dichotomies of reason vs. feeling, objectivity vs. subjectivity, man vs. machine, and physics vs. metaphysics still make sense?
MK: This is the computer-thinking speaking. These are binaries . 0’s and 1’s are for computers, and arguably should only be for computers.
I thoroughly believe, alongside thinkers like Douglas Rushkoff, that we must ... See morefrom Making Sense of Culture Amidst Contradiction by Matt Klein
- Shuherk cast the rise of curatorial accounts like his as a failure of the legacy-media ecosystem. The job of providing well-informed recommendations once belonged to professional critics employed by newspapers and magazines. As media companies have struggled to adjust to the digital age, the number of full-time criticism jobs has dwindled, leaving ... See more
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failings of the modern internet
in relation to the prestige recession
- Writer Heidi Priebe on love and grief:
"As long as there is love, there will be grief. The grief of time passing, of life moving on half-finished, of empty spaces that were once bursting with the laughter and energy of people we loved.
As long as there is love there will be grief because grief is love's natural continuation. It shows up in the aisl... See morefrom 3-2-1: On the source of inspiration, the bond between love and grief, and the power of hope