Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
readordieaslave.substack.com
• The best way to criticize something is to make something better.
Kevin Kelly • 101 Additional Advices
And so today, even if the underlying code of an application is open and free, your data gets routed through a centralized server run by a corporation that could arbitrarily read your data, change the rules on you or deplatform you at any time.
Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again
Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God by Greg Graffin, Steve Olson
app.thestorygraph.com
While each experiment presented an opportunity to dive deeper into a specific topic, they also allowed us to learn more about ourselves. With each new hypothesis, we honed our preferences, discovering what lit us up and what bored the living daylight out of us. I've noticed the same thing happens when we note-takers try a new digital tool. Whether... See more
Treat PKM app exploration like science experiments
What is the comparative value of digital art that doesn’t exist physically compared to something like a painting?
If we believe it to be of lesser value then will art itself lose value the more that creating is done digitally?
My zettelkasten and Art
I now understand that sometimes we have talents in precisely the areas that are most challenging to us. Strikes me that this is far more normal than being a total natural or a supernatural savant.
If you feel like you do your art in spite of yourself, you ain’t alone, welcome to the club.
If you feel like you do your art in spite of yourself, you ain’t alone, welcome to the club.
Junot Díaz • Writing in Spite of Yourself
Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets by Dick Cavett
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Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952 (Texas Pan American Series)
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writing as thinking or writing to understand
Borges names his essays as “inquisitions.” He is less concerned with presenting a belief and more concerned with pondering and conjecture.
for example: in “The Wall and the Books” his writing is essential guessing at the possible reasons the Shih Huang Ti ordered the building of The Great Wall and the burning of all books published before his time.