Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
readordieaslave.substack.com
Post-it notes are so powerful because they have a spatial relationship to their context.
Julian Lehr • A Meta-Layer for Notes
As late as 2000, times were pretty good. Poverty was a minuscule 6.5%, incomes were growing and folks were relocating to Bensenville from outside the state at a steady rate.
But Bensenville's fortunes have since changed. Incomes have dropped by 11.4% (without accounting for inflation), poverty has more than doubled and domestic in-migration has... See more
But Bensenville's fortunes have since changed. Incomes have dropped by 11.4% (without accounting for inflation), poverty has more than doubled and domestic in-migration has... See more
America's Fastest-Dying Towns
What is lost in this sea of feel-bad content isn’t just a sense of fun, but of taste . These “non-problematic” shows are not just irritating, they’re bland and forgettable—except in those rare moments when they pass through the looking glass into the world of self-parody, as in the 2018 NBC drama New Amsterdam when a doctor delivers this somber... See more
Kat Rosenfield • Kat Rosenfield: How Culture Got Stupid
“Attack ideas, not people” not only represents how you deal with people you don’t like but how you deal with people you do like. You should be able to analyze and interrogate the ideas of a friend without attacking your friend. Rather than beginning with “tariffs are bullshit” you start with “what are the potential weak points of tariffs”.
This was the case of Eleonora Duse, possessed by duende, who looked for plays that had failed so she could make them triumph thanks to her own inventions…
Federico García Lorca • In Search of Duende
This reminds me of Kathy Acker stealing passages and making them her own.
