sparks

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

-Charles Mackay

never trust a thought you have indoors

Like me, she was very good in a crisis and very bad on a typical weekday; I believe it was she who introduced me to Walker Percy, even taking me to Covington to see where he lived, and he was well-aware of this reality: “It is easier to survive a category five hurricane than it is to get through an ordinary Wednesday afternoon.” My mother was... See more

Mills Baker • Mother

# on shortification of "learning" There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having... See more

Andrej Karpathy x.com

the truth. “There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education… This content is an epsilon away from watching the Bachelorette. It's like snacking on those ‘Garden Veggie Straws’, which feel like you're eating healthy until you look at the ingredients.”

Alison Roman

"clarity comes when rest remembers its dreams."

I relate to this: “I don’t have any new lessons. But I often think that it’s not the new lessons as much as it is, really, learning the old ones again and again.”

Casey Reas: The Thing that Makes the Thing is More Interesting than the Thing

U-M Stamps School of Art & Design • Casey Reas: The Thing that Makes the Thing is More Interesting than the Thing

The self is not something you can set out looking for; it reveals itself gradually through the choices you make.

We must cease to concern ourselves with our unique suffering – whether we are happy or sad, fortunate or unfortunate, good or bad – and give up our neurotic and debilitating journeys of self-discovery. Art of true value requires, like a

www.henrikkarlsson.xyz • Two Kinds of Introspection

you don’t need to know who you are to become an artist. art molds us into the shape it wants us to be and the thing that serves it best.