Future
Stop trying to please everyone. You think you want to send a pleasant email that doesn’t really offend anyone. But actually, just being likable does very little for you if it means you’re not actually getting the desired result. You want to be a bit polarizing, a bit risky, a bit dangerous. You want people to either be like hell no or hell yes.
Carly Valancy • How to reach out to people when you're tired and busy and distracted
He began publishing his works in 1940, at the age of 26, and never stopped.
Remembering the Poet, John Berryman, on the Anniversary of His Tragic Death
He realized that the most vital things in life “lie in passion and in passionate expression,”
Jack London: The Function of Man is to LIVE, not to Exist
“Have you lived? What have you got to show for it? Stocks and bonds, and houses and servants–pouf! Heart and arteries and a steady hand–is that all? Have you lived merely to live? Were you afraid to die? I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.” Jack London
-learn something that fascinates you
Pick a topic, anything. Become obsessed. Not to be graded or read. Not to get ahead. Just for the thrill of it. Write a thesis, do the research, produce the paper. Watch lectures. Take notes. Make PowerPoints no one will ever see. Make homework for yourself, like you used to. Give yourself a deadline in one... See more
Pick a topic, anything. Become obsessed. Not to be graded or read. Not to get ahead. Just for the thrill of it. Write a thesis, do the research, produce the paper. Watch lectures. Take notes. Make PowerPoints no one will ever see. Make homework for yourself, like you used to. Give yourself a deadline in one... See more
Kylee • Unrot Your Brain
This is a tough post to read, tougher to look at. Some background might help. In 1993 Chris Arnade got a PhD in physics and then went to work on Wall Street. Starting in 2007, Chris started taking long walks with his camera through New York City, where he found a lot of ambiguity and unsolvable problems. By 2010 he was spending all of his spare... See more
The Last Word On Nothing | Guest Post: The Three Quarks of Life
‘…keep realizing that one key maxim to remember in light of human progress is: keep the baby, chuck the bathwater. Figuring out what exactly the baby is…’
@jedidiahjenkins
The people who actually read “originals” will be rare, and they’ll have insights others lack, and enjoy experiences others forgo—but the era in which being “well-read” is a proxy for being educated or intelligent will largely be over. It will be difficult to separate the deep readers from the superficial ones; perhaps, if A.I.-assisted reading... See more
archive.ph
have seen the decline in reading as the closing of the “Gutenberg Parenthesis”—a period of history, inaugurated by the invention of the printing press, during which a structured ecosystem of published print ruled. The internet, the theory went, closed the parenthesis by returning us to a more free-flowing, decentralized, and conversational mode of... See more
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One Week Holiday Course | Children's Book Illustration
Learn to draw and design powerful picture books. Explore bold storytelling, global examples, and the visual language of a form where art and narrative meet.
Learn to draw and design powerful picture books. Explore bold storytelling, global examples, and the visual language of a form where art and narrative meet.