David Pennington
@dtpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
David Pennington
dtpennington.com
Narrative medicine is the discipline of applying the skills used in analyzing literature to interviewing patients.[1] The premise of narrative medicine is that how a patient speaks about his or her illness or complaint is analogous to how literature offers a plot (an interconnected series of events) with characters (the patient and others) and is... See more
Narrative medicine
I don’t think we’ve ever needed genuine works of art — imaginative creations that press us to see the world in larger or at least different ways than our standard everyday media-navigation categories allow — more than we do now. But our current resources are few, because of the ways the major art-related organizations have lost any discernible... See more
ayjay • art for humanity’s sake – The Homebound Symphony
When it comes to art/ literature, airing on the side of the older typically seems to do us better. But the idea of criticism and gatekeeping is keeping some of the best ideas in a box.
Just because it doesn’ twork with your mentality doesn’t mean it’s not the lifesaver someone else is looking for.
I now do drawings with no specific purpose to see what comes out. A blank sheet can be anything.
Ralph Steadman Answers Your Questions - Freakonomics
the follow-up questions are:
- WHAT are my creative superpowers??
- WHO am I meant to serve?
- HOW do I give extraordinary value to them?
- WHAT is my philosophy/ethos/vision?
the guiding question to build wealth as an artist — kening zhu
What AI is is an ideology—a system of ideas that has swept up not only the tech industry but huge parts of government on both sides of the aisle, a supermajority of everyone with assets in the millions and up, and a seemingly growing sector of the journalism class. The ideology itself is nothing new—it is the age-old system of supremacy, granting... See more
Mandy Brown • Toolmen
Most of today’s young people have never had that experience and, as a result, have no idea why it is important to seek out places for quiet study and contemplation.
The Rational Walk • The Thirty Second Mind
Michael Goldhaber is the internet prophet you’ve never heard of. Here’s a short list of things he saw coming: the complete dominance of the internet, increased shamelessness in politics, terrorists co-opting social media, the rise of reality television, personal websites, oversharing, personal essay, fandoms and online influencer culture — along with the near destruction of our ability to focus.
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 .