In-Spire
Random stuff I come across
In-Spire
On writing
“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world.
The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimeter the way people look at reality, then you can change it.”
Dylano • Writing in the 21st Century: Redux
A Harvard psychologist once asked Amos Tversky why he became a psychologist. “It’s hard to know how people select a course in life,” he said. “The big choices we make are practically random. The small choices tell us more about who we are. Which field we go into may depend on which high school teacher we happen to meet. Who we marry may depend on... See more
SIX at 6: The Seemingly Frivolous, Reading A Tongue, Experiencing A Spoon, Authenticating Paintings, The Systematic Choices, and Great Revelations
This is interesting. There are good and bad people in any discipline. It’s more important to be good in a discipline rather than the discipline itself.
What people need most is confidence, not advice
(reminds me ot Tyler Cowen’s high value of raising people’s aspirations)
23. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
parade.com
i.e. not cognitive dissonance
Rooms
mail.google.comgreat newsletter with really cool websites
But look beneath the technique and what did you find? A sameness, a mental weariness, a mediocrity of ideas. But they could defend every ad on the basis that it obeyed the rules of advertising. It was like worshiping a ritual instead of the God.
Like worshipping a ritual instead of the god.
Variance Equals Strength
Try new things, do things differently. Experiment.
The Talks – No Idea is Final
counter-print.co.uk
cool books website