The New Romantics

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

In a culture obsessed with speed, certainty, and specialization, Leonardo’s secret feels almost rebellious: take your time, learn widely, think deeply.

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

This is the bottom line : if we don’t make room for deliberate play, we’ll burn out under the weight of seriousness we’ve forced upon our own shoulders.

Basic dynamic in life: there is nothing meaningful enough to make you happy that could not make you sad if you lost it. This is the paradox of feeling, and it’s inherent and existential. If things inspire real positive emotion in you then they are necessarily things in which you are sufficiently invested that you would feel negative emotions when... See more

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

“Right now, we need writers who know the difference between the production of a market commodity and the practice of an art.”

Myles helped me avoid an easy error:

Putting the tool before the craft.