Jake

@jake

writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.

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40 Mind-Expanding Concepts

“I know that talent doesn’t feel like you’re amazing. It feels like the difficulties that trouble others are mysteriously absent in your case. Don’t ask yourself where your true gifts lie. Ask what other people seem weirdly bad at.” Sasha Chapin

good questions

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" - Walt Whitman

polymathematics

Song of Myself, 51

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”

—Terry Pratchett

Writing

"By living well, by observing as you live, by reading well and observing as you read, you have fed Your Most Original Self. " - Ray Bradbury

Writing

1,000 True Fans

Kevin Kelly kk.org

Great reading

How not to be fooled by viral charts

noahpinion.blog

Great reading

Is there a way to cultivate curiosity? To start with, you want to avoid situations that suppress it. How much does the work you're currently doing engage your curiosity? If the answer is "not much," maybe you should change something.

Paul Graham • How to Think for Yourself

Boredom

Alex Komoroske — Complex Adaptivity All The Way Down

polymathematics

Infinite Loops Podcast