Alex Burns

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"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."

—Arthur C. Clarke

research as leisure activity

Celine Nguyen personalcanon.com

from the radio producer Ira Glass, on feeling disappointed by your own work:

All of us who do creative work...get into it because we have good taste. But there’s a gap. For the first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making...It’s not that great. It’s really not that great. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but

Celine Nguyen • The Divine Discontent

“That would be my advice to you as an artist as well as a man. If there’s something that’s dirty within you, you can’t just present it as is. You kind of have to turn the contradiction into something positive by sharing it with other people who might not think they have one. Sublimate those contradictions within you into art.”

Harry Styles Is One of Us

Part of what makes fall so accessible to Gen Z is that you can create content about it from inside your bedroom, with a string of orange LEDs, a hot beverage, and a few pumpkin throw pillows. Summer doesn’t offer the same accessibility: Conjuring summer on the feed means vacations (costly) or bathing-suit content (not everyone’s thing). Fall is a... See more

Kathryn Jezer-Morton • Welcome Back, Social-Media Fall

Because right now there is someone

Out there with

a wound in the exact shape

of your words.

Sean Thomas Dougherty • “Why Bother” by Sean Thomas Dougherty

It doesn’t matter how much we summarize, at some point, effort is required. More summaries won’t automatically lead to more understanding.

Seth Godin • The Cliffs Notes paradox