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myliteraryexperimentinstagram.comIt's tempting, sometimes, to idealize the trope of the "lazy genius."
I decline to do so. There is a great deal of tedious maintenance work someone needs to do to keep the world running, and an inability to consistently do so is not praiseworthy.
Some smart, low-conscientiousness people... See more
TracingWoodgrainstwitter.comlooking closely at how different ecosystems are defined as impaired based on “intended use,” we can find that, as with legislative definitions of human disability in the US, the inability to work, to be able to labor and produce capital, is essential for how and when ecosystems are defined as impaired in US policy.
Sunaura Taylor • Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert
Great artists don’t study art history to figure out what art to create.
Great founders don’t analyze the market to figure out what product to build.
Naval Ravikanttwitter.comI’m not sure this person has ever taken an art class. Art relies on the ability to look at something and go “I want to make that.” It is impossible to live in a world where no one consumes art of a great artist - everything from a price sticker to the Sistine Chapel and from a stick figure drawn by a child who looks at their parents all the way to a decorated wax figurine of a president, are all forms of great art we can learn from. You must learn how to do techniques, which are also taught from great artists, but the point of art is that you are inspired to make something and inspiration has to come from something.
One of the wildest moments of this conversation for me was when I made a comment that I thought was just a universally believed truth about the post-platform internet: that people these days prefer individuals to brands. And then Nilay told me, “No, that’s wrong. It’s not people who are doing that; it’s the systems that deliver content to people” —... See more
Nilay Patel • NilayPatel tells Decoder guest host Hank Green why blogs are still great
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
—Charles Bukowski
Today, many of our ideas about able-bodiedness and disability come from classifications based on who is suitable for plantation or factory work: we call people “disabled” when they can’t perform “normal” amounts of physical labor.