David Pennington
@dtpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
David Pennington
dtpennington.com
What we want in 2025
Yancey Strickler • What we want in 2025
Some people say that if you do what you love at work, you never work a day in your life. I would argue that, at least under a capitalist system, if you do what you love at work, what you love could eventually become what you hate. That is why capitalism kills creativity.
Why I Don't Make Art For a Living: How Capitalism Kills Creativity - Nadya Primak
Buying used books is the absolute antithesis of the subscription model that is destroying everything I love.
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how can my creative superpowers as an artist be channeled into giving extraordinary value and service to others, while sharing my ethos & philosophy along the way?
the guiding question to build wealth as an artist — kening zhu
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
As a method, marginalia remind us that all annotation is allusive, that all literature is connected to everything else, that the reader influences the writer as surely as the other way around, and even if the later has been dead for centuries.
Ed Simon • Annotate This: On Marginalia
A High-Level Introduction to Idleism
Not to be confused with idealism. Although, I wouldn’t mind making the argument that idle is the ideal. Some principles of Idleism, in no particular order:
You are more than an hourly rate.
You will never get paid “what you are worth” by an employer. The entire precept of capitalism is that they make more from your