drink from different fountains

but why did you make it xyz“ because it’s fun, because I like it, because why not, because I can, because it doesn’t matter, because no one can tell me not to, because it felt right, because it makes me happy when I look at it, because i don't need a reason

I got really into a strange style of Twitter usage popularized by @visakanv and @Conaw. They would use Twitter as a sort of note-taking app or memex : weaving intricate webs of ideas, using Twitter’s quote-tweet and linking mechanisms for connecting related thoughts.

When evaluating a company, one of my favorite questions to ask is whether it has an aesthetic. We don’t talk about aesthetics as the highest form of brand or story or a reflection of team cohesion, because investing on “vibes” or “look” or “mood” is very frowned upon. Even using it as a data point is beaten out of us. But if you look at any enti... See more

Midgley specifically challenged Descartes' famous thought experiment where he sits by his fireplace and questions everything he can possibly doubt, including the existence of other people. Descartes concludes that the only thing he can know with absolute certainty is that he is thinking (and therefore exists) - the famous "Cogito, ergo sum."

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inspiration is an emotion a reference makes you feel a certain way — you study the reference to understand what exactly about it makes you feel then you experiment to recreate that emotion anything else is just copying

Magazines were containers for someone else’s taste, and when you read them you were inhabiting that taste.