i hope you delight in mystery
on incomprehensibility and resisting the need to be understood
i hope you delight in mystery
it bums me out that hilma af klint’s work is being used to illustrate this article about people who think there is depth in their interactions with chatbots instead of facing the reality that they’re sycophantic parrots who produce a deluge of unnecessary text giving you a false sense of certainty and training you to trust the authority of a... See more
Madeline Porsellasubstack.comI’m most drawn to what I call think-y woman books : books by or about women who are introspective, resistant and gloriously uninterested in being easily understood.
Issue 128: Everything I Read in June
So, how to wrap my arms around this term in a way that captures its spirit without flattening it?
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
When your whole life is changing, it’s normal to have lots of ideas about what you might do. Rapid attention shifts are typical of liminal periods. Now is the time to play with these ideas, not to lock yourself into ironclad plans. Wait until an idea has felt right for a number of days or weeks before you commit to making it a part of your new
... See moreMartha Beck • Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
And maybe that’s part of the problem, trying to be legible to everyone. The tug of war of wanting to water things down for mass adoption versus building something I want for myself and trusting the others will come.
Sari Azout • Making Sublime
