The New Romantics
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle is a concept in quantum mechanics. It tells us that what we measure determines what we observe. And what we observe determines the nature of reality.
Are overnight oats ads proof that Instagram is changing reality?
. As author Leah Price put it in her book How to Do Things with Nooks in Victorian Britain: “Once a sign of economic power, reading is now the province of those whose time lacks market value.”
Georgina Elliott • Why don’t straight men read novels?
She wrote on Hollywood and Washington, New York and Sacramento, Terri Schiavo and Martha Stewart, grief and hypocrisy and Latin American politics, and somehow it all drove toward the same point: Narratives are coping mechanisms. If we want to truly understand ourselves, we have to understand not just the stories we make up together, but the tales... See more
Alissa Wilkinson • The Essential Joan Didion
So this is what’s happened to the world: optimization trumps human preference. The people who want to win the argument are effectively prepared to ignore human truths to preserve the integrity of the artificial model.
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
“Right now, we need writers who know the difference between the production of a market commodity and the practice of an art.”
Celebrating 300 issues with a new community for DD readers 🎉
Something is deeply wrong when we sext the same way we order a sandwich.
Catherine Shannon • Your Phone Is Why You Don't Feel Sexy
For the most part, I was using my vast expertise in productivity to... make more content about productivity.
Nat Eliason • Breaking Up with Productivity Advice Breaking Up with Productivity Advice
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
I do not want to be in the business of manipulating your split-second attention.