Hannah
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Hannah
We all live multiple lives in one, and our sense of self continuously dies in the process. So when you feel some fundamental changes occurring within you (i.e. feeling disconnected from certain friends, being discontent with a job you’ve historically enjoyed, questioning your faith, etc.), don’t be too afraid.
Lawrence Yeo • Death: The Roommate of Life - More To That
Control is why brains are on constant alert for the unexpected. Unexpected change is a portal through which danger arrives to swipe at our throats. Paradoxically, however, change is also an opportunity. It’s the crack in the universe through which the future arrives. Change is hope. Change is promise. It’s our winding path to a more successful tomo
... See moreWill Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better
[My father] says in his experience it is the man who has been in a war who understands that war is cruel and foolish and sinful, and anyone who defends war as natural to the human condition is a person of stunted imagination.
This is why, as Vittorini put it, intellectuals must not "play the piper to revolution." Not in order to shirk the responsibility of a choice (which they can make as individuals), but because the moment of action requires the elimination of nuances and ambiguities (and this is the irreplaceable function of the "decision maker" in every institution)
... See moreI call [the first steps of a creative act] scratching. You know how you scratch at a lottery ticket to see if you’ve won? That’s what I’m doing when I begin a piece…
Scratching takes many shapes. A fashion designer is scratching when he visits vintage clothes stores, studies music videos…the act of changing your environment is the scratch.
—Twyla Tha
... See moreThe Industrial Revolution had two phases: mechanizing the manufacturing of cloth, then mechanizing manufacturing itself. The Digital Revolution is experiencing the same two-step process. In the first phase, the white-collar side of industry—payroll, human resources, inventory management—was digitized and networked. Computers have been used to desig
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To that end, scheduling creative tasks for specific times of day, and then treating them like real nonnegotiable appointments, is imperative for productivity.
-Fay Wolf
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
—Charles Bukowski
And in many ways, that complaint has only gotten louder over the decades. Stop talking to each other and start buying things. Stop providing content for free and start paying us for the privilege.
-Catherynne M. Valente catvalente.substack.com
Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media,
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