Brian Sholis
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Brian Sholis
* "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
- "But to listen is to act; of that, there’s no doubt. It takes effort and doesn’t happen by default."
Astra Taylor • The Right to Listen
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- "The idea that the right to listen to one another should be defended in a democracy seems strange. That’s probably because we lack a shared vocabulary or framework for understanding listening as a political act ."
Astra Taylor • The Right to Listen
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
* "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
- “If you do stay, then you have to acknowledge that the sociological function of elite colleges in non-ideal America will always be to produce an unfairly privileged elite. The only question is what it means to do this well.”
The Point • Elite Education | The Point Magazine
* "And if you can’t even type it—forget about publishing it, we’re just talking about the initial keyboard action—that means that you don’t want to know yourself."