provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
sari and
provocations
As a practical matter, I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. Most of the people who've made beautiful things seem to have done it by fixing something that they thought ugly. Great work usually seems to happen because someone sees something and thinks,
I could do better than that.
I could do better than that.
Paul Graham • Taste for Makers
You can go out on the internet, and you can find your audience. And you can build a business, and create a product, and build wealth, and make people happy just uniquely expressing yourself through the internet.
Naval Ravikant • The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities
In ‘How Movies Were Edited 60 Years Ago,’ an editor manually cut film splicing, taping, and rewinding at a near biblical pace. Each move carried significance since fixing mistakes was time consuming.
Watching that, I envied the slow process. It’s the opposite of my current approach > revisions layered endlessly, endless undos, nothing ever... See more
Watching that, I envied the slow process. It’s the opposite of my current approach > revisions layered endlessly, endless undos, nothing ever... See more
Media I’ve Consumed: Week 001 > The World Is Too Smooth
Mothers with the most education report the highest stress and tiredness and the lowest happiness and meaning
I find myself all the time without a great piece of content to consume. And the demand-supply thing just hasn't reached an equilibrium yet, maybe it never will. And audio is unique in the sense that it is at least 10 times easier to create an unbelievable hour of audio for me, and my format's interview, interviewing someone great like David. That... See more
Frederik Gieschen • A Compulsive Search for the Most Interesting People with Patrick O'Shaughnessy - Compound Manual
the key to happiness is not comfort, but discomfort
The fork on your plate isn’t inevitable—it’s propaganda. Its design has been polished by centuries of iteration, yes, but also by centuries of forgetting. We stopped asking why a fork looks the way it does because it became too familiar to question. It’s not a tool anymore; it’s a dogma.
But supernormal isn’t about inevitability. It’s about normalization. When something becomes so ubiquitous, so embedded in daily life, it disappears from view. That’s not just true for objects—it’s true for the systems we live by. Markets, money, time.
“If you can see a thing whole,” he said, “it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives … But close up, a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful earth is, is to see it from the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is... See more
andrea and
The story ends when enough people stop believing in it, not when the opportunity space actually dries up.