Brian Sholis
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Brian Sholis
- " To defend our right to listen to one another, we must sometimes strain to hear voices that the powerful would drown out. "
Astra Taylor • The Right to Listen
* "Flip over the rock in your mind, type about the beetles."
Sasha Chapin • If You Have Writer's Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying If You Have Writer's Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying
- "In charting what is relevant at a given moment, bringing new art and cultural developments to our readers’ attention, we aren’t just embracing topicality for topicality’s sake; we’re trying to stay unsettled."
Elizabeth Schambelan • Elizabeth Schambelan on criticism - Artforum International
"I function like a more curated but less efficient version of GPT. My sentences are not generated by A.I., but they are largely the synthesis of my favorite authors."
"I enjoy reading human writing because I like getting mad at people. Perhaps the personal quality in writing is a happy accident, and a lot of journalism could be replaced with an
... See moreJay Caspian Kang • What’s the Point of Reading Writing by Humans?
- “Perhaps our biggest time error is near bias—caring too much about what’s about to happen, and too little about the future.”
The New Yorker • Being in Time
* “The geographic circle of life has expanded, so friendship strategies that depend on constant proximity are no longer effective.”
David Perell • The Fruits of Friendship - David Perell
* “All communication involves some amount of signal loss”