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Side projects as the key to the good life By Marty Bell • 31 Jul 2025 When I was 13, I created a chat room for teenagers to talk about art and photog

Instead, I simply want to posit one idea for your consideration: Enchantment is just the measure of the quality of our attention.1 In other words, wh

Subtle shifts in language can sometimes have surprising consequences. The language of attention seems particularly loaded with economic and value-orie

Because attention determines what will or will not appear in consciousness, and because it is also required to make any other mental events—such as re

We start out knowing nothing on the left, learn a lot from books and move to the middle, and then learn enough from experience, if we’re lucky, to end

For the deepest passion of the Western mind has been to reunite with the ground of its being. The driving impulse of the West's masculine consciousnes

Willingness to look stupid

In the era of infinite creation and consumption, it’s not the technicality of individual works but the authorship of aesthetic frameworks through them

Better, I believe, to maintain hope amid life’s uncertainties—but to distinguish hope from optimism. Many people use the terms almost interchangeably,

I remember a psychiatrist once telling me that I gamble in order to escape the reality of life, and I told him that’s why everyone does everything. ―

Note-taking Lessons From America’s Greatest Biographer

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing