Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
In “Thinking in Pictures,” Grandin suggested that the world was divided between visual and verbal thinkers. “Visual Thinking” gently revises the idea, identifying a continuum of thought styles that’s roughly divisible into three sections. On one end are verbal thinkers, who often solve problems by talking about them in their heads or, more... See more
Joshua Rothman • How Should We Think About Our Different Styles of Thinking? | The New Yorker
As fire ecologist Richard Minnich has said, "You can send an arsonist to Death Valley and he'll never be arrested."
Mike Davis • Let Malibu Burn: A political history of the Fire Coast Mike Davis : LA IMC
Driven by ultra-capitalistic incentives, the incessant pursuit of productivity and perfection combined with external, never-ending stimuli results in burnout and anxiety, the symptoms of an overloaded nervous system.
Matt Yao • More Human Possible
When the storytelling in a culture goes bad the result is decadence
Rushkoff, Douglas • Present Shock
Staff picks: Art books, new new media, and why you don't need a smartphone
Yancey Strickleropen.substack.com
"I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don't give a damn whether the client understands that that's worth anything, or that the client thinks it's worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It's worth it to me. It's the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares."
—Saul Bass
That impulse to scour away the messiness that makes life resilient is what many conservation biologists call the “pathology of command and control.” Today, the same drive to centralize, control and extract has driven the internet to the same fate as the ravaged forests.