Most people shouldn’t be listening to more podcasts.Not because they’re bad but because they’re better at replacing your thinking than enhancing it.You’re not downloading insight. You’re drowning in it.We confuse consumption for creativity. But creativity needs space. Silence. Boredom. Processing.That’s the real problem. We don’t process. We binge.... See more

Social media. That wonderland where we can flit from one superficial, jerkoff distraction to another, always remaining on the surface, never going deeper than an inch. Real work and real satisfaction come from the opposite of what the web provides. They come from going deep into something—the book you’re writing, the album, the movie—and staying th

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If I want to be a writer who is any good, I really think I am going to have to be bored more often, which means sequestering my attention to my surroundings: the mundane, the slow, the IRL.