everything is a conversation
notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity
everything is a conversation
"Utopias are dreams of collective deliverance that in waking life are found to be nightmares."
- John Gray, Black Mass
- John Gray, Black Mass
Paul Millerd on Substack
the most transformative dialogues often feature exploration rather than predetermined outcomes. We don’t know what we want, and we use conversation to get closer to articulating our desire. Some conversations are infinite, like games for their own sake.
A Philosophy of Conversation
The single best advice I ever got on conversation is “ask questions the other person will enjoy answering” which sounds insultingly obvious, but almost nobody does it, and it instantly makes conversations vastly more fun.
Henry Shevlin • Tweet
I really like this Emerson riff: as long as you’re under the illusion that someone is the absolute and solitary progenitor of an idea, you cannot properly appreciate either the person or the idea
Visakan Veerasamyx.comWoodworking is brutal. It's painfully slow to learn and very unforgiving. But the sheer act of jumping blindly into a new creative field as a novice really opened up my eyes. You'd be surprised how quickly designing a simple bench will lead you into existential questions about the nature of "sitting."
No More Boring Apps | !Boring Software
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift."
- Mary Oliver
It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift."
- Mary Oliver