Brian Sholis
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Brian Sholis
* "I find that people often believe they have a writing technique problem, when, actually, what they have is a sincerity problem."
Sasha Chapin • If You Have Writer's Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying If You Have Writer's Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying
I’m rejecting the career ladder metaphor in favor of the career river. Here’s why:
1. The ultimate goal of the career ladder is: reach the top.
The ultimate goal of the career river is: reach your ocean - a thriving, wide-open ecosystem fed by other rivers to explore. /
Bridget Thoresontwitter.com- "The decision to **add to cart** is no longer a knee-jerk reaction mid-scroll on social media, but now a risky energetic investment by an increasingly cynical and burnt-out online user."
Hugh Francis • ✨ Expansive Brands • garden3d research
The Point | A magazine of the examined life
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* “When you get on a plane and travel you go 15 heartbeats per mile. That is, in the time it takes to travel a mile in flight your heart beats 15 times. On a train your heart might beat 250 times per mile. And we count this up and we make sense of it. We’re constantly switching accelerations; we’re jumping between time frames. That’s what we’re... See more
Paul Ford • 10 Timeframes
A profile of David Mills, an engineer who coded the Network Time Protocol that runs much of the internet. His methods, his code, are slowly be replaced by other ways of measuring and coordinating time, and this story does a good job of framing the personalities of those involved, the trade-offs, etc.
The New Yorker • The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time
- “In a just world, a college like Swarthmore simply wouldn’t exist. The mere possibility would be regarded as obscene.”
The Point • Elite Education | The Point Magazine
- “She advocates for temporal neutrality—a habit of mind that gives the past, the present, and the future equal weight.”