David Pennington
@dtpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
David Pennington
dtpennington.com
to find all the stuff in your GDrive that doesn’t have a home, you search “is:unorganized” which I think is pretty fitting for most people.
You might think of this chart as the shape of attention. After clicking to start, thousands rapidly exited, some immediately, some after a minute or two. But if you could make it past three minutes, you were more likely to finish than to give up. And once you hit five minutes, your odds of completing the exercise were very high. A quarter who... See more
Larry Buchanan • ‘Weird and Daunting’: 7,000 Readers Told Us How It Felt to Focus
The people we traditionally consider to be smartest are those best at some sort of a general math / reasoning ability.
This is not what genius is.
This is not what genius is.
Alexey Guzey • Intelligence killed genius - Alexey Guzey
“Popular books such as What You Do Is Who You Are (2019) by the venture capitalist Ben Horowitz carry the implication that being and doing are synonymous. Busyness is a badge of honour, even a sign of moral superiority. Rest, in contrast, is often treated as if it’s passive and pointless. Indeed, I’ve noticed many people hardly think of rest as its
... See moreTo put it in a nutshell: any idea significant enough to need permission is too threatening to thosewith the power to grant it
Gumroad
“all destination and no journey”
choosing friction
Dogs have nowhere to be, but they
always seem to be down to go
just about anywhere.
archive.ph
archive.phMichael 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.