remember me nots
In the end, to move through the world is to experience encounters that constantly pass us by, and to brush up against moments that we are not able to save other than as an unreliable memory. The increasing popularity of apps like BeReal that capture those moments—rather than try to contain and display them—seems to reflect an embrace of life’s flee... See more
WePresent | The selves we save and discard in the the social media age
I wonder often when, specifically, these possible futures evaporated.
Nora McInerny • Bad Vibes Only: (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)
I didn’t want to lose anything. That was the main problem,” Sarah Manguso writes on the opening page of Ongoingness, her short book about learning to let herself forget things. She long fears being “lost in time,” until finally she realizes (as I’ve quoted once before), “the forgotten moments are the price of continued participation in life.” In re... See more
How many times have you tried to remember something important and felt it slip through your grasp?
Atria Books • Building a Second Brain
How indeed do the squirrels know, what do we know ourselves, how do we remember, and what is it we find in the end?