Where have I seen this before?

The time you spend is not your own.

You are, as a class of human beings, responsible for more pure raw time, broken into more units, than almost anyone else. You spent two years learning, focusing, exploring, but that was your time; now you are about to spend whole decades, whole centuries, of cumulative moments, of other people’s time. People usin

the real success goes to those who obsess

"When everything is readily available and consumable, contemplative attention is impossible." (Byung-Chal Han, Vita Contemplativa)

The proliferation of “curating” speaks of a generation anxious for authority and authorship, and also for meaning.

- Lou Stoppard, Writer

One of the great balancing acts in life is to be cautious and daring at the same time. Cautious enough to avoid stupid mistakes, prevent burnout, and maintain a margin of safety. Daring enough to bet on yourself, to do the things you would regret leaving undone, and to be willing to be uncomfortable in the short term so you can learn and grow in th

The disease of our times is that we live on the surface. We're like the Platte River, a mile wide and an inch deep. Real work and real satisfaction come from the opposite of what the web provides. They come from going deep into something - the book you're writing, the album, the movie -and staying there for a long, long time

— STRATSCRAPS v101

“They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm

“It’s published here on the understanding that it will never appear online, because of course, the last thing they’d want is for their favourite places to suddenly become ordinary.”

Steve from Stack Magazine on August’s issue

The world is getting larger because I can now look everywhere when I want

to find something (or someone). That means that the amount of variety is

staggering, and it means I can define my world to be exactly what I have an

interest in—and find my preferences anywhere on the planet.

At the same time, the world is getting smaller because the categories a