Erlank Pienaar
- Sometimes it’s nice to remember all the other people one has been. Especially when settling into hard-core middle-age. I love being this me, but I loved being that me, too.
from I Loved Smoking by Emma Straub
- Poet and writer Joseph Brodsky on how to deal with the critics, detractors, and negative influences in your life:
“Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those — in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can’t escape them, but once you have steered clear ... See morefrom 3-2-1: What Top Performers Do, and How to Deal With Critics and Detractors by James Clear
Un-Trolling Your Life
- Alexi Pappas on how the story you tell yourself is the most powerful one in the world.
“How you talk about your experiences will dictate how you feel about them. Reframing our goals and rewriting our stories are powerful tools. Nobody can tell us how to feel about something. We can make our shortcomings into something beautiful if we want to. How w
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- Writer and scholar C.S. Lewis on what why small choices matter:
“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never d... See morefrom 3-2-1: Two ways to grow, how to criticize, and a simple recipe for finding good opportunities by James Clear
- But I see links.net as a model for the kind of website I want to build. The fact that Justin’s consciousness from almost 30 years ago is frozen into the Internet is perhaps the most interesting part of this whole story. Decades later, here I am, reliving his past in detail. His adventure is perhaps fresher in my mind than his, considering I’m the o... See more
from The First Online Writer by Michael Dean
Perhaps ‘Sublime’ can become our ‘legacy’ presence on the web. A permanent record of thoughts and collections forever linked to ‘those who came before’
- The examined life
What if our worst qualities are actually our best? Recently I listened to an interview with Irish theologist and poet John O’Donohue from 2006 in which he asked what would happen if the things we hate about ourselves, the qualities we despise and can’t stand, are actually the best things about who we are. It was a powerful reframe... See morefrom Good Billionaires and the Last of Silicon Valley’s Original Founders
When up is down…
- Meanwhile, some of the most serious people I know do their serious thing gratis and make their loot somewhere else. My dad, whose photographs sit at the top of every Experimental History post, quit his job at the newspaper and went to work as a postal carrier instead. Why? As he puts it: “I could afford better lenses delivering mail than I could ta... See more
from Surely You Can Be Serious by Adam Mastroianni
A man of letters… post / mail / words working hard for UBI - serving the commons, in order to facilitate personal expression. Work to live, not live to work.
I was a film geek. Film geeks don't have a whole lot of tangible things to show for their passion and commitment to film. They just watch movies all the time. What they do have to show is a high regard for their own opinion. They've learned to break down a movie. They understand what they like and don't like about a film. And they feel that they're
... See more"[This is] the key to the mystery is the old adage "a word to the wise is sufficient." Because this phrase is not only overused, but overused in an indirect way (by prepending the subject to some advice), most people who've heard it don't know what it means. What it means is that if someone is wise, all you have to do is say one word to them, and t
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