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We should be wary of a culture that treats relational rupture as a form of self-care. Human development does not occur inside bubbles of self-righteousness. It occurs through friction, disappointment, repair, and humility.
Brooklyn Beckham just made cutting your parents off a lifestyle choice
Yet, despite this abundance of enthusiasm for cultural research, it often feels like it’s easier than ever to slip into the gravity well of banality. Cookie-cutter essays optimized for algorithmic engagement. Hot takes stripped of depth. Fleeting fads interpreted as extreme, paradigm-shifting hyperbole. We resort to dramatic binaries, either... See more
Research as a form of pattern disruption
The playful wildness that made them successful gets replaced by increasingly hollow repetition as they struggle to maintain the career they worked so hard to achieve.
—Henrik Karlsson, being creative requires risk
bite the peach
Joy moves like weather, sudden, undeserved, soaking everything it touches.
Most of us hesitate at the threshold, trying to decide if it’s safe to step into the light. But joy doesn’t linger for deliberation. It passes through, brief and dazzling, and what it leaves behind is not possession but trace: the shimmer of having been met.
It... See more
Joy moves like weather, sudden, undeserved, soaking everything it touches.
Most of us hesitate at the threshold, trying to decide if it’s safe to step into the light. But joy doesn’t linger for deliberation. It passes through, brief and dazzling, and what it leaves behind is not possession but trace: the shimmer of having been met.
It... See more
maja • too much joy is exactly enough
Sherry Ning wrote recently about this exact phenomenon in her piece how lucky are you allowed to get:
When I ask my friends how things are going and they’re doing well, they get shy. Most people can tolerate only a moderate dose of happiness before they begin to self-regulate. They grow suspicious of their own good fortune like they’ve stumbled upon... See more
When I ask my friends how things are going and they’re doing well, they get shy. Most people can tolerate only a moderate dose of happiness before they begin to self-regulate. They grow suspicious of their own good fortune like they’ve stumbled upon... See more
too much joy is exactly enough
I’ve been there so many times, deep in the matrix of capitalism. Contorting my values and beliefs into a professional, ROI-shaped-object. It felt… not optional.
they had rediscovered the abundance of time, but somehow it felt like time wasted.
— Perfection, Vincenzo Latronico
Lucy finds herself torn between the cynicism and mathematical practicality her job has hardened in her and a yearning romanticism she wishes she could be open to.
Dakota Johnson and director Celine Song rethink the rom-com with 'Materialists'
how much of this is us right now?
Today, we’re not just creatively stunted, inefficient and unsatisfied...
We’re actively sabotaging ourselves.
And worse, we’re calling it business as usual.
We’re actively sabotaging ourselves.
And worse, we’re calling it business as usual.