The New Romantics

To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you have to stop mindlessly consuming the Internet and start mindfully curating it.

Perhaps the immutable error of parenthood is that we give our children what we wanted, whether they want it or not.”

Mastery is fine, but you must retain the ability to think like a beginner.

"Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden."

- Voltaire

She thought about that for a moment. “But it’s so boring,” she said. “Yes, that’s true,” I said. “Boredom is not just boring. It can also be terrifying. It forces us to come face-to-face with bigger questions of meaning and purpose. But boredom is also an opportunity for discovery and invention. It creates the space necessary for a new thought to

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You Don’t Have To Make Art

The early chorus of generative AI tools:
“Now everyone can make art regardless of their skills or tools.”

• Could you not make art before? Even elephants can paint. Our ancestors created well known art by etching with a stone into the walls of the caves they called home. A kid with a box of discount crayons has no problem

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Something is deeply wrong when we sext the same way we order a sandwich.

The solution to the atomization curse that both gives us significantly more time back, and makes us much happier, is to seek to reintegrate these various foci of life as much as possible .

Do we need to practice being human again?