Jacob Sam-La Rose
@jacobsamlarose
Jacob Sam-La Rose
"The job of a poet," he said, "is not to kill poets by creating disciples," but the other way around, "to create poets by killing disciples or himself. Whether killing himself or his disciples, what the true poet gives is life, not death like the supposed 'master."
—Juan Ramón Jiménez, The Complete Perfectionist
Mmm. In the context of working as a mentor. Need to think further on this to try reconcile the tension between “killing” self/others and giving life. Seems oxymoronic. By inference/extension, ‘masters’ practice death. By establishing a rigid path or ‘way’ for their followers? Link to some of Bruce Lee’s thinking on Jeet Kune Do…
Things will only change when being an asshole stops being a competitive advantage.
Until that day arrives, I have to learn to live in a state of tension with my tools. I have to acknowledge and accept the fact that I use tools built by awful people to create beautiful things.
Until that day arrives, I have to learn to live in a state of tension with my tools. I have to acknowledge and accept the fact that I use tools built by awful people to create beautiful things.
ankursethi.com
We’ve structured our society so that the best products and services are made by the worst people in the world. Of course you can deliver packages earlier than everyone else if you overwork your employees. Of course you can sell the fastest computers at the cheapest prices if you keep moving your manufacturing operations to countries with the worst ... See more
ankursethi.com
Very early on in my “career” (LOL) I decided I wasn’t drift compatible with working in large organizations. I just didn’t enjoy it. Which isn’t to say that I can’t work with people, there are people I absolutely love working with. We’ll come back to this point in a second. I didn’t like working in large organizations because the larger an organizat... See more
Mike Monteiro’s Good News • How to Write With the Devil’s Hand
There are always plenty of rivals to our work. We are always falling in love or quarrelling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much ... See more
www.themarginalian.org
“For the secret of human existence lies not only in living,” Dostoevsky wrote, “but in knowing what to live for. Without a firm conviction of the purpose of living, man will not consent to live and will destroy himself rather than remain on earth, though he be surrounded by bread.”
ashleydzhang.substack.com
I’ve written before about the creative cycle; this is mine. I aspire to be confident, relaxed, on an even keel—but writing, for me, seems to demand an uneven keel. A genuine question: Is it possible to feel confident and relaxed while writing? I can’t even really conceive of it. I can’t even sit up straight and write; I have to be in a defensive cr... See more
Mason Currey • On “not being uptight” as a writer
