Jake
@jake
writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
jakeweber.net
Poetry and Ambition
poets.org
Everyone I know who's independent-minded is deeply curious, and everyone I know who's conventional-minded isn't. Except, curiously, children. All small children are curious. Perhaps the reason is that even the conventional-minded have to be curious in the beginning, in order to learn what the conventions are. Whereas the independent-minded are the... See more
Paul Graham • How to Think for Yourself
"All coherent intellectual work begins with a genuine reaction. " - George Saunders
A Swim in the Pond in the Raid
hold your own view as just one in a collection of views. This requires an ability to hold multiple perspectives at once, a state of partial knowing that the poet John Keats called “negative capability”—in one author’s definition, “the innocence from agendas that enables one to become like what one observes rather than impose the self upon it, the... See more
Graham Duncan Blog • What’s going on here, with this human?
“The aesthetic is colonized by the economic.”
Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
Here Are 52 of My Favorite Quotes
David Foster Wallace Tried to Warn Us About these Eight Things
open.substack.com
what do your ideas want from you?
bewrong.substack.com
A Mathematician's Lament
The document explores the flaws of current mathematics education, criticizes the rigid curriculum, and advocates for a more creative and intuitive approach to teaching mathematics.
worrydream.com