David Pennington
@dtpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
David Pennington
dtpennington.com
“You who do not know how the mind is joined to the body know nothing of the works of God.”
Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand?
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.
The important tools will find you .
Adam Singer • Amateurs obsess over tools, pros over mastery
"Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden."
- Voltaire
- Voltaire
South Africa, MLB Leaderboards, and Return of the Pandas
- Always be smartly dressed, well groomed relaxed and friendly polite and in complete control.
- Make the world to believe in you and to pay heavily for this privilege.
- Never worry assess discuss or criticize but remain quiet respectful and calm.
- The lord chisels still, so don’t leave your bench for long.
THE LAWS OF SCULPTORS, Gilbert and George
It's All Experiments
the internet isn’t some alien force that descended upon us.
It’s just us, but bigger.
It’s just us, but bigger.
Joan Westenberg • The Original Sin of Everything
When you reduce yourself to a product, you sacrifice the very essence of what makes you unique. Your quirks, your weirdness, your vulnerabilities, your authentic self-these are the things that resonate with others, not a polished, palatable persona. The impactful creators understand this.
You are not a commodity
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 .