Chad Aaron Hall
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1️⃣ paper is the best app 2️⃣ Time is not the enemy of thought
Chad Aaron Hall
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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.
In the map-with-route system (direct manipulation), the user must do some of the work of understanding what they see (the map), and developing a mental model of how to apply it to their context (reading the map). In exchange for this deeper involvement, the user learns a useful mental model (their local geography) that can help them in future uses
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“the user must do some of the work”
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.
unconscious self on the contrary is provided with a marvelous and impeccable memory which registers without our knowledge the smallest events, the least important acts of our existence. Further, it is credulous and accepts with unreasoning docility what it is told.
Émile Coué • SELF MASTERY THROUGH CONSCIOUS AUTOSUGGESTION
The reason the death of Google Reader matters, here, is that it marks a pivotal moment in the deliberate and engineered shrinking of the internet. When Google Reader died, article discovery shifted. People were no longer reading RSS feeds, finding new sites, following them, and being updated when those sites posted. Instead, they were scrolling on
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Someone needs to create a platform for journalists on the blockchain.
As I'm watching the Danny Casolaro doc on Netflix this seem necessary.
This platform would function as a lockbox for backups of all a journalists research. It cannot be erased, it cannot be censored, it cannot be altered. If something happens to that journalist, the platform would
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While most people tend to be optimistic, those suffering from depression and anxiety have a bleak view of the future — and that in fact seems to be the chief cause of their problems, not their past traumas nor their view of the present. While traumas do have a lasting impact, most people actually emerge stronger afterward. Others continue strugglin... See more
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I don’t know what this place is but I can’t get it out of my head. All the plants and then the books in curio cabinets.
from The Nordic Murders: S1E2 The Blemish