Ideas I want to write about
Instead, I’d say that what I was looking for throughout my childhood and adolescence and young adulthood was what Romain Rolland called “oceanic feeling” in a letter to Freud in 1927: “the sensation of eternity, of ‘being at one with the external world as a whole.’” In other words, I was looking for the presence of God. The feeling, not the... See more
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Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all destination and no journey. But climbing a mountain is different from taking the tram to the top, even if you end up at the same place. We are becoming people who care mainly or only about outcomes. We are at risk of
... See moreTim Wu • Opinion | The Tyranny of Convenience - The New York Times
“Releasing art into the world becomes easier when we remember that each piece can never be a total reflection of us, only a reflection of who we are in this moment. If we wait, it’s no longer today’s reflection. In a year, we may be guided to create a piece that looks nothing like it. There is a timeliness to the work. The passing of seasons could
... See moreThere’s this guy who is sailing across the ocean, and he’s stuck in the doldrums in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. No wind to move him through it, just his tiny vessel and thousands of miles of ocean on all sides. He looks into his phone’s front facing camera, smiles and takes in the stillness of his surroundings. Naturally, this is all captured
... See moreLegacy isn’t something to keep hermetically sealed in a box, or to place on a shelf or trophy case, only removing it to show off when we have guests over. Look at this legacy. Pretty cool huh?
No. Fuck that. Legacy is a seed you plant into the dirt. You water it, give it sunlight, you let it grow. It is not an artifact but a living organism. Alive
... See moreThe just use of imagination is not just conceptual. It must be enacted. Without this enactment, a re-envisioning is relegated to the realm of fiction and future. The just use of imagination is applicable (in that is must be applied), and employed in our current realities in service of justice and equality RIGHT NOW, now later. John Lennon’s
... See moreAs Dead lyricist Robert Hunter wrote in the classic Dead song “Uncle John’s Band,” “When life looks like Easy Street, there is danger at your door.”
Barry Barnes • Everything I Know About Business I Learned From the Grateful Dead
It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.”