Alex Dobrenko

Mr Ashville,

You’re damn funny and the braintrains article sealed the deal. I’m 35 and just found out anxiety runs my brain sometime in the last year. The braintrains article helped me articulate the insanity AND when I sent it to my therapist, it was used with a patient that wasn’t me. You’re not just a humorist anymore, you have a... See more

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

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In my time crafting on the web, I’ve come to understand that the websites have limited meaning on their own, what matters are the links between them. The web exists in its links, not in its pages.