Alex Burns
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Alex Burns
Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine...Fill your website with your work with your ideas and the stuff you care about. Don't let it fall into neglect. Think about it in the long term. Stick with it, maintain it, and let it change you over time.
Read the newspaper
To that last point, consider getting a newspaper subscription, even just for one day a week (I’d go with Sunday, personally). It’s a slower and more resonant way to process the week’s headlines. No clicking away. Also, if I might submit some superficial rationale here: sitting in the kitchen reading a newspaper looks and feels... See more
To that last point, consider getting a newspaper subscription, even just for one day a week (I’d go with Sunday, personally). It’s a slower and more resonant way to process the week’s headlines. No clicking away. Also, if I might submit some superficial rationale here: sitting in the kitchen reading a newspaper looks and feels... See more
The Analog Life: 50 Ways to Unplug and Feel Human Again
make websites cool again!!! pt 2. // visual diary/creative inspiration #017:
I think our brains have gotten so used to the homogeneity of the design of platforms - built on efficiency, uniformity, ease… that to see stuff like this, un-templated containers of content, is such a delight and surprise. website as art. art... See more
Arrianesubstack.comA fan of both Herman Melville and long-forgotten archives, Grann landed on the journals of a 16-year-old midshipman who was stranded with his crew members on an island off the coast of Patagonia. It was not the document’s descriptions of typhoons, shipwreck, or mutinies, however captivating, that convinced Grann the story of The Wager was worth... See more
Chronicler of the Flower Moon
a prime example of why a common book is so helpful! two very different ideas coming together
It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself.
Zadie Smith on the Psychology of the Two Types of Writers
Thanks to the alleged love triangle, Rodrigo and Carpenter have that built in. They have very thinly veiled songs about each other — a territory some of those past “rivals” have never really ventured in.
But what makes the Rodrigo-Carpenter dynamic unique is that they’ve both figured out how to make the “rivalry” work in their favor, embracing their... See more
But what makes the Rodrigo-Carpenter dynamic unique is that they’ve both figured out how to make the “rivalry” work in their favor, embracing their... See more
Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso,” the song of summer, explained
