beautifully said
Saudade is a Portuguese word that can be roughly defined as a feeling of melancholy, nostalgia or yearning for something that is beloved but not present. There's no perfect translation, but one of the closest English expressions of the word I've ever seen is Billie Eilish's Tiny Desk performance.
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Billie Eilish: Tiny Desk Concert
she crystallized a cultural mood
Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance.
– Conclave
Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insight without endangering the security of our prior assumptions.
– Robert Grudin, The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation
maintains avant-garde pretensions despite being entirely milquetoast.
Sean Monahan • INTERNET COOL
Oftentimes, innovation is just another word for cultural espionage.
Sean Monahan • INTERNET COOL
surrounded by the detritus of dashed hopes
Many young people are furious about the economic lot they have drawn by being born into an era of significant wealth inequality
“People aren’t dumb. The world is hard.” — Richard Thaler
Adam Singer • All behavior makes sense with sufficient information
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble
Carl Jung