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We have much to learn from children—the simple, the pure, the truth.
As a kid did you ever stare into your own eyes in the mirror long enough to lose your sense of reality?
A child can spend an hour fascinated by light reflecting on a wall. Adults often require escalating stimulation because familiarity numbs perception.W
Watch a child become emotionally transformed by:warm bathwater,a soft blanket,sunlight,being swung in circles,a heated car seat,grass,pool water,being
Articles about social media platforms and their effects on society.
I feel like there’s something so soulless about our culture—something deeply, deeply missing in people’s experience of life, a kind of superficiality.
“It is not easy to convince people that I am not dealing with ideas but with perceptions, not concepts but observations. It is easy to disseminate ide
Although still using the language of tools, in 1988 Illich explained, “I would like to get together a certain number of people to think about what too
Digital capitalism does not pose the same kind of threats as industrial capitalism, in part because it does not act on us through straightforward inst
hard to explain but easy to love. how do you describe Sublime to a friend?
a personally fulfilling and socially useful life of the mind
The internet taught us to consume everything. Save everything. Remember everything. But wisdom isn't about remembering more. It's about knowing what t
A digital communal garden. Shared beauty and care.
starting well, the beginning of a project, that kind of stuff
It also aligned the computer with something that is often inspiring to many people and artists: nature. If I can find the sublime in microchips and SD
Sometimes, You Have To Say No To Your Friends To Say Yes To Your Work When asked, Lin-Manuel Miranda says Wait For It is the best song he’s ever writ
when making things becomes frictionless, starting stops meaning anything.
advice from writers, and more on writing
So much value and love for the process of writing and what it does for the coherence between heart, brain, imagination, lived reality, unseen, and see
You can’t write a viral essay that says “it’s complicated and I’m not sure.” But this is the only path to truly novel insight.
Writing is a task that takes both objective and subjective intelligence. LLMs ace the objective parts the same way they ace every test; you can’t faul
the inner workings and challenges of life as a creative
I find that changing mediums is always good for my writing, so often I will go from the manila folder to a sheet of paper to a Word doc to a Scrivener
I have said that releasing certain work is like having a pap smear in public. This still feels true but before you can even get to the point of choosi
So much of making creative work is not actually being in flow, but it’s getting yourself there.
everything is a remix of what came before
“Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.” ― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer
In 1985, Nike held a 24-hour shoe design contest. Nike was struggling. Their stock dropped 50%. They had to lay off people. Adidas, Converse, and Reeb
Society is increasingly cutting the nourishing ties that attach us, and calling it innovation. I worry about how encouraged we are to do things effici
I couldn’t help but come to the conviction, right there on the bus, that one of the most important questions modern man must ask himself is how much t
exploring good character traits, personalities, etc
Useful and Overlooked Skills
Design talk: Too much consistency will ruin your app. Humans are naturally drawn to experiences that create a strong sense of place. This demands va
People who don't pause exist more in their head than their body. The mind is top-down, rigid, quick, enforcing an established view. The mind is waitin
musings on education, new forms of schooling, and what schooling has done to children
across many dimensions we have been acculturated to value the aggregated over the individual, and defaulting to the average consensus has become comfo
one of the reasons school fails to help people model success is that a series of tests introduces no randomness. Success in real life involves a grea
what does it mean to live a good life?
“You can search and search all your life, but sometimes you need to realise you’ve arrived.”
“So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”
Christians believe purgatory exists because of God’s divine mercy, but even here on earth, perhaps the waiting period is more merciful than we realize
to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
