Poetic Outlaws on Substack
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Poetic Outlaws on Substack
Harvard’s Clay Christensen writes: Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life’s strategy. Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. I... See more
The Marginalian • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
That space—where you look up from writing and don’t know where to go or what to do next, where you sit at a red light, wait at the post office? Something lives in that space that’s being hurt and displaced by calling in the “elsewhere” of messages, news cycles, TikToks, and so on. A relationship to something as yet unknown and under formation is be... See more
Lia Purpura • The Ecology of Attention
Attentiveness entails the difficult task of waiting, not for the world to take note of us, but for us to take note of the world.
Robert Zaretsky • The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
“Have you tried making yourself a more interesting person?” This seems like a really mean thing to say, unless you think of the word interesting the way writer Lawrence Weschler does: For him, to be “interest-ing” is to be curious and attentive, and to practice “the continual projection of interest.” To put it more simply: If you want to be interes
... See moreAustin Kleon • Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
This is the quiet art of living well. It does not demand that we abandon the world, but that we engage with it more mindfully. It asks that we slow down, that we look more closely, that we listen more carefully. For in doing so, we discover that much of what we seek—clarity, peace, even strength—was always within reach. It was simply waiting for us
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