“I’m not interested in myself per se. I’m interested in myself as theme carrier, as host.”
― David Shields, Reality Hunger
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“I’m not interested in myself per se. I’m interested in myself as theme carrier, as host.” ― David Shields, Reality Hunger
how much of me is me and how much of me is me mediated back to myself via the internet and via people’s responses to me. This of course is the mimetic groove. But it is something that people who are consumed by others must contend with each day. You have to figure out where the meat of content stops and where the rind of your soul is because otherw
... See moreBrandon • Finishing the Bostonians
It’s not really about your content as much as it is about the context. That’s why I think people are more interesting than brands of media here, especially as many larger institutions become empty shells of themselves. I’m less interested in where that content is published and more interested in who created it.
“Is this authentic to me? Is it myself that I am projecting?”
Eric Jorgenson. • Eric-Jorgenson_The-Almanack-of-Naval-Ravikant.indd
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. Michel de Montaigne
Ralph Waldo Emerson • Self-Reliance
So, I’ve developed an eye for what's personally novel or different. Anything that isn't that, I let it be a wind that blows by. If my antenna picks up that there's something truthful there, I dig in. Otherwise, it doesn’t bother me.
being is autosubversive, for its whole purpose and project is one of self-annihilation.”
Kieran Setiya • Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
I don’t like being seen as a content creator. In fact, I don’t believe content creation or writing is an occupation, because it denotes that creating or writing is a thing we do, instead of something we embody naturally.
For me, writing is not what I do , it’s who I am.
I do not try.
Creating/writing comes out of me the way I sweat during a workout:... See more
For me, writing is not what I do , it’s who I am.
I do not try.
Creating/writing comes out of me the way I sweat during a workout:... See more