Elena
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Elena
Knowledge of the world isn’t the same as experiencing the world. Why does online connection so often seem to lack aliveness, as compared to encounters with the world of flesh-and-blood people, nature, and material things? This paragraph from Karl Ove Knausgaard struck me as eloquent: “It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images
... See moreRelationships are an important source of personal growth, but for a relationship to expand us, two things are necessary.
The first is intimacy: we need to give the person we are talking to deep attention; we need to really take them in; and they need to feel comfortable enough to share their thoughts in an uncensored... See more
Henrik Karlssonsubstack.comA humanism that responds to the collapse of Big Authenticity will be sexier . As Magdalene Taylor recently wrote, “Real things and actual human experiences are hot, even in the written form. They have a libidinal energy that’s been drained from us in the current technological era. And we’re going to want to get that energy back.”
Daisy Alioto • Yearn in Review
Taste is about discovery, having interest in things, and making a lot of mistakes. It’s about trying to find the authentic set of choices that both reflect your own background, but also the choices and discoveries that you have made consciously and deliberately. It's always changing and it's also always in reflection of what everyone else is doing... See more
Tahirah Hairston • RLT Interview #4: W. David Marx, Writer
Taste isn't some mysterious gift bestowed at birth—it's simply what happens when you pay close attention to what moves you.
Sari Azout • What matters in the age of AI is taste
Idil Galip
The best, most promising relationships are formed out of reverence and fearless love and curiosity and imagination. The most divine relationships constitute a messy, awkward collaboration between two savage souls who dare to ask for more from this world. Nothing is more beautiful than two people who dare to be wild and rapacious together! The most... See more