Human Stuff
the messiness of what it means to be human, with all of its messiness and complexities
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Human Stuff
I don’t love writing; I love having a problem I believe I might someday write my way out of.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense.
— Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
— Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Dylano | Essayful • Tweet
Oliver Burkeman sums up my views on AI and creativity pretty well:
To start with, picture this scenario. You’re at home, feeling lonely and sorry for yourself, when the phone rings out of the blue. It’s an old friend, checking in on you. For an hour, you have one of those rare, wonderful, uplifting conversations; by the time you hang up, you’re
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people don’t want options. they want a leader.
people don’t want options. they want a leader.
ChatGPT is suddenly the biggest suckup I've ever met. It literally will validate everything I say.
Craig Weissx.comthe ability to go out on a limb and go against consensus will rise
It is a human trait to organize things into categories. Inventing categories creates an illusion that there is an overriding rationale in the way that the world works.
Andrea Zittel • Andrea Zittel, "These Things I Know for Sure"
yes, reminds me of Jonathan Tarleton’s writing on the labelmaker. ”The aura of the labelmaker is not exactly glowing. It has an air of corporate efficiency and bullshit jobs, the kind of setting where something misfiled incites a low-stakes crisis. The labelmaker, the name itself a fusion of both output and executor, evinces an attempt at control.”
Got an email from a student looking for an internship in private equity. Here's my response:
Hope it helps someone else trying to break into a new field.
