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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
insights on the art of reading
the moralists ask us how we can justify our love of reading, we can make use of some such excuse as this. But if we are honest, we know that no such e
The hot new theory online is that reading is kaput, and therefore civilization is too. The rise of hyper-addictive digital technologies has shattered
TED’S 24 RULES FOR READINGReading shouldn’t be a goal—instead it ought to be cultivated as a habit.It should be a relaxing and enjoyable habit, someth
The psychological process of transitioning across boundaries and borders; the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage
I’ve found myself wanting to get out of the liminal place I’ve been floating in — wanting it to be done already, wanting to arrive in clarity, wanting
the most important reason for moving from one place to another is to see what’s in between.
Surviving…whatever all this is… doesn’t have to mean being left a shell of a human. In culture today, there’s an attempt to make something out of it.
The latest season touches on a similar note — in which Robinson’s neighbor sneaks a pig in a Richard Nixon mask into his home. It ends with an all-too
Extra-Existentialism
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Politics is a lagging indicator of consciousness. Do not despair.
When we mistake spreading ideas for taking real action, we overlook a crucial asymmetry: ideas and actions distribute their consequences wildly differ
pretty clear that collecting cultural ephemera is a new consumer behavior that’s going to become a core part of life on the internet
Books you read are sending you input. Your friends modeling behaviors for you. Newspapers. Tools. People you follow on Twitter. The architecture of a
The dream isn’t just to show all of ourselves unfiltered to the world. It’s to find a character that we feel comfortable being, that we deeply resonat
musings on taste
This is pretty good, and strangely consistent with my own idea of good taste Tasteful people pursue stuff with purpose, have an appreciation and curi
On paper, taste = discernment. In practice, taste = your sense of self, made visible.
For Kant, judgment is the mental faculty that connects particulars to universals—the capacity to say “this thing is an instance of that category.” But
A system optimized for noise elimination is hostile to the genuinely new. It converges on what works, on what has worked. That convergence might produ
Even if, for a while, I feigned hatred of rock and roll, that only made sense on the presumption of its continued reign. Much the same could be said a
To be honest, my appetite for this sort of online blowup diminishes hourly. Though I’m as prone to schadenfreude as any other media professional tryin
We can always opt out of this arrangement, of course, and live happily in meatspace, but that is precisely the point: Offline we exist by default; onl
“So thinking is prior to language. What language contributes is to firm up certain particular ways of seeing the world and give fixity to them. This h
“His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the over
exploring the inner workings and dynamics of companies building products engineered to hook us, addict us, and hijack our attention to sell more ad inventory
Brave ideas break through.
In producing media — writing, filming, editing, recording — we have a choice between producing content or chasing the singular. Frustration with the i
One reason Meta is eager to offer a whatever-you-need platform experience is that Instagram doesn’t want to be a dumping ground for cutdown clips anym
So what does this mean for social teams and creators? If you’re good at long content, IG wants to be your platform sooner rather than later.
we’ve always been influenced in what we find beautiful or valuable or important, of course, but what’s new is the speed at which one is inundated with
You can use algorithms to surface new things. But algorithms are not nearly as good as human curators yet. Whatever pattern matching is going on insid
But there’s a difference between collecting and curating.With collecting, building the collection itself is often the end goal. Not so with curating.
