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Nothing can substitute for depth of analysis, and there's proven value in specialization – it's what education, career paths, scientific research, and technological innovation are built on – but generalism is a secret talent.

People who appreciate diversity, who are in the know about the wider world and who understand how things interact are... See more

On My Way Out I Passed Over You and the Verrazano Bridge”, Lorde writes:

I am writing these words as a route map

an artifact for survival

[...]

a rudder for my children your children

our lovers our hopes braided

Being a poet is what determines the “quality of light” by which she examines her life and the world around her, how she scrutinises her at-times chaotic feelings to figure out what information they might hold and what actions they demand. Poetry is also her method of connecting and communicating: her poetic practice is to take up her feelings and... See more

As nature—primal, raw, unengineered nature—becomes itself more scarce, it also becomes more chic; of course everybody wants a taste.