No One Told Me About Proust
A “barbell strategy,” Taleb writes, is one that involves “a combination of extremes kept separate, with avoidance of the middle.” Applied to reading, this means:
Trashy gossip magazines and classics or sophisticated works; never middlebrow stuff.
Celine Nguyen • No One Told Me About Proust
Trashy gossip magazines and classics or sophisticated works; never middlebrow stuff.
Celine Nguyen • No One Told Me About Proust
Their guest is Charles Broskoski, the co-founder and CEO of Are.na, and the first part of the podcast is devoted to an essay he wrote about “all of the important reference points (like books, artworks, people, etc) that have changed who I am (or maybe helped me become who I am).”
Celine Nguyen • No One Told Me About Proust
There’s something you get at about why we pay attention to certain things and collect them...that is different than a cynical and algorithmic view of taste...Our desire and attention falls to certain things because of the way that we feel about the person, place or thing that introduces them to us. In that way, taste is a lot more similar to love t... See more
Celine Nguyen • No One Told Me About Proust
It’s not pretentious to care about art!