Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
readordieaslave.substack.com
Logic and language were the last frontiers of human evolution, and facts will never win over emotion.
sari azout • Principles for sharing on the Internet
For some reason, when we moved our workflows into the digital realm, we began to lose respect for this way of taking notes, of simply adding new information to an ever-growing log of our thoughts. Instead, we built tools that encourage us to keep only the most current version of reality.
thesephist.com • Incremental Note-Taking | thesephist.com
The root of the problem is a loss of trust. Comedy is ultimately about trust. The TreePeople audience laughed at my joke because they trusted that I hadn’t actually molested young boys. My kids laughed at my jokes because they love me, and they know they’ll be beaten senseless if they don’t. Without trust, audiences begin to question the intentions... See more
David Zucker • Article
The muse and angel come from outside us: the angel gives lights, and the muse gives forms (Hesiod learned from her). Loaf of gold or tunic fold: the poet receives forms in his grove of laurel. But one must awaken the duende in the remotest mansions of the blood.
Federico García Lorca • In Search of Duende
Based on what the researchers knew about such structures, they estimated the huge number of these mysterious constructions that are likely hidden somewhere beneath still unsearched forest.
10,000 Pre-Columbian Structures Could Be Hidden beneath Amazon Rain Forest
everything we experience is automatically coated in emotion.
Lisa Cron • Wired for Story
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
David Foster Wallace • 2 highlights
amazon.com
properly understood, memes are strategies.
Nathan Baschez • How Memes Control Everything
