Importance of Being Earnest

Earnestness is radioactive. People sense it through the screen. If you’re saying something because you believe it, people may not agree, but they will listen longer. If you’re saying something because you think it will work, they may like it, but they won’t love it. There is a difference between engagement and emotional investment. One gets clicks.... See more

privacy is the womb.

it’s where we gestate who we are before the world gets to shape us.

take it away, & you don’t get more honesty. you get collapse. conformity. psychic suffocation.

if you love freedom, you have to love privacy.

if you care about the human spirit, you have to defend its room to breathe.

& if you still want to become something tomorrow... See more

The contest isn't between humans and machines but between two models of human-machine interaction. One treats cognition as a commodity to be optimized for frictionless consumption. The other preserves what made that blank box special: the good struggle of human curiosity meeting its limits and pushing through.

There will still be some people who can write. Some of us like it. But the middle ground between those who are good at writing and those who can't write at all will disappear. Instead of good writers, ok writers, and people who can't write, there will just be good writers and people who can't write.

Is that so bad? Isn't it common for skills to disa... See more

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.”

The best, most promising relationships are formed out of reverence and fearless love and curiosity and imagination. The most divine relationships constitute a messy, awkward collaboration between two savage souls who dare to ask for more from this world. Nothing is more beautiful than two people who dare to be wild and rapacious together! The most ... See more