Creation
Time freedom, time sovereignty, goes beyond spending it on loved ones or pleasures. In terms of first priority, I am in need of time to pray. Do you see the feedback loop? I get time; I gift it to my imagination. Me and my mind and my Benevolent Divine, we sit in contemplative prayer and focused acquisition of our greater desires. The focus yields... See more
The strip club did indeed make me bonkers!
I am not crazy. Or maybe I am. It doesn’t matter. This is what matters.
That’s a better way to describe wealth, actually: the ability to bend time to your liking. However, there are many ways we can seize back our time. I believe this bit was the most radicalizing thing about working in the strip club: learning that nothing was more important to me than sovereignty over the way I spent my time.
... See moreScience requires deviant thinking.
Our brains grow by being able to enter into other minds and imagine ourselves as other people. ...literature gives you direct access, it literally allows you to leap into the mind of Jane Austen or Homer or Maya Angelou etc., and just go.
Sally Mallam • The Science of Storytelling
The importance of fiction
They seemed to regard fiction not as something decorative but as a vital moral-ethical tool. They changed you when you read them, made the world seem to be telling a different, more interesting story, a story in which you might play a meaningful part, and in which you had responsibilities.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
The point of fiction
“the people that scored absolutely highest on the ethical survey afterwards were people that had read a short story… The findings of the study were essentially nothing was as potent as a piece of fiction to remind people that other people are real. A little thing that makes you go, ‘Oh, I remember empathy! An experience communicated from another
... See moreInvestigation: The form and importance of fiction
AI will finish what the
smartphones have begun. It will make
creation frictionless. Images, melodies,
essays produced in seconds, customized
for every taste. At this point, the
screen will be saturated with beauty
that means nothing. The act of making
will lose its aura because everyone will
be able to do it. But abundance doesn't
satisfy. It dilutes. When... See more
smartphones have begun. It will make
creation frictionless. Images, melodies,
essays produced in seconds, customized
for every taste. At this point, the
screen will be saturated with beauty
that means nothing. The act of making
will lose its aura because everyone will
be able to do it. But abundance doesn't
satisfy. It dilutes. When... See more
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I long for the physical proximity of other artists who create with intention. I appreciate anyone who creates with their hands but I want to be surrounded by those who see what they do as a craft and a process of being, who strike that balance between taking their craft seriously and not taking themselves so seriously. I want to know what they read, where they went on the river, what scrap of magazine caught their love and sparked their inspiration. Let us create a mosaic out of our intention and the people around us. Let us see each other.
They write. They host book clubs. They post Substack essays (ahem). They debate kindly, disagree well, and connect ideas across time, culture, and emotion.
You don’t just absorb knowledge, you remix it.
That’s when it becomes part of you.
You don’t just absorb knowledge, you remix it.
That’s when it becomes part of you.