David Pennington

Here’s what I’m trying to do with my life and my work. I’m trying to fully integrate everything. So the transition from work to play to everyday life is all seamless. So that it’s all one thing. There’s no difference between living and making art. I’ve gotten really close. Music, comics, writing, painting, playing with Eli, doing dishes, cooking,... See more

AI now promises results without the reckoning, but frictionless creation leads to weightless rewards

PTSD is literally defined as being “marked by an inability to construct a coherent story of our past.”

Work, family, or friends: pick two. You can have it all, just not all at once.

Our photographs are not memories; they are advertisements, billboards for a life we are too preoccupied to live.

“appstinence”

We should all want to cultivate a thirty second mind that can absorb the essence of a problem and come up with insights based on deep fluency with how the world works. However, a different type of “thirty second mind” is far more common today. Nearly thirty years after the internet became mainstream, the majority of people in our society have... See more

One of the take-home lessons of Buddhist philosophy is that feelings just are. If we accepted their arising and subsiding as part of life, rather than reacting to them as if they were deeply meaningful, we’d often be better off. Learning to do that is a big part of what mindfulness meditation is about.