On interesting
Cultivating a point of view, finding ideas, understanding what Interesting is.
On interesting
Life is a journey into finding the things you want to melt into.
Isabel • find novelty through commitment
“Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and se
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Dana Gioia on Becoming an Information Billionaire (Ep.119)
Tyler Cowen describing Dana Gioia, Ted Gioia’s brother
Constraint + format = creative forward motion (inspired by Russell's On Interesting)
The British sociologist Marilyn Strathern ... taught me that “it matters what ideas we use to think other ideas (with).” ... It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots; what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions,... See more
Mandy Brown • The case for rereading
Donna Haraway - Staying with the Trouble via Mandy Brown
The power of pattern recognition:
As I read, as I do my work, as I go about my days, the word ekphrasis continues to come up. I read it everywhere: in edits on a piece I’ve written about an artist’s documentaries, in Instagram captions, on podcasts. I’ve certainly encountered it before, probably in college, but I haven’t encountered it since—thi... See more
“When you’re working on a project, you may notice apparent coincidences appearing more often than randomness allows—almost if there is another hand guiding yours in a certain direction.” — Rick Rubin
Reread a book enough times, or often enough—keep it at hand so you can flip to dog-eared pages and marked up passages here and there—and it will eventually root itself in your mind. It becomes both a reference point and a connector, a means of gathering your knowledge and experience, drawing it all together. It becomes the material through which yo... See more
Mandy Brown • The case for rereading
“I am only interested in people as long as they are unpredictable to me. If I can predict what you’ll do or say, I’ll lose interest in you rapidly. If you can keep regularly surprising me in some way, forcing me to actually think in unscripted ways in order to respond, I’ll stay interested. It’s reciprocal. I suspect the people with whom I dev
... See moreIt is easy to mistake status-seeking for curiosity.