David Pennington

@davidpennington

I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.

dtpennington.com

This idea is nothing new and ever more relevant in our age of digital detoxes and celebrities who are famous for being famous. We know what we want, we have made that choice, and the only chance for improvement is a gritty dedication to your discipline.
from Entertained to the Death of It – D.T. Pennington
Pennington's Portfolio and don’t be discouraged
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.
from Are overnight oats ads proof that Instagram is changing reality?
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 b... See more
from The Essential Joan Didion by Alissa Wilkinson
Which brings us back to the question of traditionalism and dynamism, and their potential interaction: if you have had a cultural revolution that cleared too much ground, razed too many bastions and led to a kind of cultural debasement and forgetting, you probably need to go backward, or least turn that way for recollection, before you can hope to g... See more
from The fall of the intellectual by Ross Douthat
The New Romantics
Alas, we’re too dumb for the big ideas. Pop psychology, it is! Pass me my copy of Atomic Habits.
To be a gardener is to give a fuck. To be a gardener is to be invested in a place—to know it, to protect it, to be present to it. How can we protect and heal ourselves and our planet if we’re not willing to step into, and value, the role of the gardener?
from Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care by Wonderground
Quotes
Regaining the connection between human and nature, so maybe the instinct of human nature can finally take over.
"The Chinese say you need three things for paintings: the hand, the eye and the heart,” says the painter David Hockney. “I think that remark is very, very good. Two won’t do. A good eye and heart is not enough, neither is a good hand and eye.”
from Head, heart, hands
“We do not thrive as parts of a machine. We are intended by nature to be diverse, to do diverse things, to have many skills.” John Seymour
from The Home as a Place of Production by Karen Rosenkranz
Instantaneous access to everything obviously comes at a cost. The cost being that we all behave like demented Roman emperors, at once bored and deranged, summoning whatever we want at any time.
from Your Phone Is Why You Don't Feel Sexy by Catherine Shannon
Techocalypse
“I felt like I was just a flightless bird that could only grip the railing and gaze into the distance,” he said.
from Want a Break From Being Human? Flap Your Wings and Squawk. by Yan Zhuang

from Entertained to the Death of It – D.T. Pennington

from Are overnight oats ads proof that Instagram is changing reality?

from The Essential Joan Didion by Alissa Wilkinson

from The fall of the intellectual by Ross Douthat

from Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care by Wonderground

from Head, heart, hands

from The Home as a Place of Production by Karen Rosenkranz

from Your Phone Is Why You Don't Feel Sexy by Catherine Shannon

from Want a Break From Being Human? Flap Your Wings and Squawk. by Yan Zhuang