Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
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What percentage of history's greatest and most prolific writers did not use a Zettelkasten? More than 99%, probably. Luhmann is an exception that proves the rule.
Personal Knowledge Management is Bullshit
“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My
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Susan Mossman Taylor on Substack
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For Susan Mossman Taylor Forever Ago
Susan asked for a collection - here’s her original prompt
French translator Norman Shapiro describes the work of translation as “the attempt to produce a text so transparent that it does not seem to be translated. A good translation is like a pane of glass. You only notice that it’s there when there are little imperfections— scratches, bubbles. Ideally, there shouldn’t be any. It should never call... See more
Arcadia Molinas • Against Fluency - Tetragrammaton
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I could, however, identify with Knausgaard’s feeling of being rendered soft and harmless, of having to forget that there were such things as potency or masculine dignity. The fact that we were helping our wives take care of our children on the weekend was not the problem: this was a responsibility we had all signed up for, approved of and—at least... See more
On the Crisis of Men | The Point Magazine
how do you stay a person when you become a dad
hooooo nelly I disagree with this!! like, what is it about being in a room of kids that makes him feel that he is expected to himself become a child too?