Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
This passage from Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From, which is discussing Darwin’s use of keeping a commonplace book (a practice I have always loved myself) as a vital part of where his most important ideas came from, just jumped off the page at me:
“The great minds of the period —Milton, Bacon, Locke were zealous believers in the
... See morehis mindset provides a method and a framework for understanding, appreciating, and acting upon obstacles that life throws at you . This allows you to become “ antifragile ” in the sense that you actually gain st rength by going through and learning from challenging times. The greater the challenge , the greater your strength becomes. I learned a... See more
Unknown • Challenging * Mattering = Meaningful
Initially, I tried to do this using a website builder, but they all had constrictive templates and really wanted you to understand that a website is a business . Every builder I tried had a 'backoffice' with analytics and stats displayed prominently. I didn't want to run a business, I wanted to live a happy cyberlife, and it gets stressful when... See more
introduction
Cardboard’s ubiquity rests on simple claims: I can hold that, and I can go there
Places Journal
maybe our identity was never a fixed thing?? has the internet actually changed anything or is it always a creation of our own minds? Or a creation of our community - is identity something that emerges when someone else sees you, a la quantum lol
good example of someone creating things with soul and heart
There was a will from 1913 and my parents each left everything to the other partner so that there could be no dispute. This will was still in existence but my mother did not want to use it. Instead she suggested, "You get the factory and your brother Ernst, will get the cinema and I will receive a pension from each of you." That was '37, '38 and we... See more
Curt Herzstark • An Interview with Curt Herzstark
the curta calculator and Curt Herzstark bio
and then, the nazis.
“Zen pretty much comes down to three things:
everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”