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The doom-scroll economy benefits from your nihilism.
an abundance of verbosity rather than quality, noise rather than impact.
To such doubtful amulets had my self-respect been pinned, and I faced myself that day with the nonplussed wonder of someone who has come across a vamp
The utopia was temporary, its beauty and its small victories whittled away by the scythe of inaction.
inputs should feel personally obsessive , not intellectually impressive.
“Releasing art into the world becomes easier when we remember that each piece can never be a total reflection of us, only a reflection of who we are i
For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not...your work disappoints you
We assume people want polished perfection. But often, they’re more drawn to the rough draft. The early adopters, the ones who find you first? They’re
To research is to follow a scent. Sometimes you know what you’re looking for. Sometimes you don’t. Sometimes it starts with a single word you can’t sh
journaling for anti-curriculum What do I want to learn? Why do I want to learn? How much time do I have to learn? Where is the first accessible place
Keep asking: What emotion do I feel when I see this designer’s work — calm, tension, nostalgia, thrill? What forms repeat across what I love — str
Voltaire once wrote that, “in order to have taste, it is not enough to see and to know what is beautiful in a given work. One must feel beauty and be
The capacity to act in concert for a public-political purpose is what Arendt calls power. Power needs to be distinguished from strength, force, and vi
Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political or economic changes.
In the first century BC, Cicero said: “Freedom is participation in power.”
For the academy, “research” is a term of art. For our purposes, research is not a rarefied academic exercise. It is a fundamentally human activity, an
Research as leisure activity is directed by passions and instincts. It’s fundamentally very personal: What are you interested in now? It’s fine, and m
You don’t need a full thesis. Just an angle. A thread.
To research is to follow a scent. Sometimes you know what you’re looking for. Sometimes you don’t. Sometimes it starts with a single word you can’t sh
Before we had vibes, we had the chillier, more Germanic zeitgeist. Both tap into our appetite for locating our lives within a bigger picture. But vibe
My closet became less of a project and more of a projection. Transference at its finest.
It’s nowhere near a capsule wardrobe, but it's madness contained. Me, concentrated. Every piece is either thoughtfully chosen or intentionally kept fr
In truth, most of us don’t suffer from a knowledge deficit—we suffer from a doing deficit. We take online courses and read books but rarely apply what
This is the very bland and very basic and college-freshman level thing I’ve been thinking about: what is luxury?
“If someone truly is creative and inspiring,” they write, “it will show up in how they allocate their spare time.” In job interviews, the authors advi
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the n
“love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy” because “our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness,” Rilke
Regardless of what happens, our six weeks taught me that the deepest connections don’t come from trying to prove our worth, but from having the courag
How to Read a Collection 1. Context & Conversation Who: Who designed it? What’s their background and prior house (if any)? Where: Which fashion hous
Keep asking: What emotion do I feel when I see this designer’s work — calm, tension, nostalgia, thrill? What forms repeat across what I love — str
Unfortunately, if you want to do new things, you'll face a force more powerful than other people's skepticism: your own skepticism. You too will judge
Imagine if we could turn off the fear of making something lame. Imagine how much more we'd do.
But what scares me is that we've trained them to see struggle as evidence they're on the wrong path. We've convinced an entire generation that if work
“Time will multiply whatever you feed it. Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.”
Over 40 million people rely on SNAP to afford groceries, and the program is confronting its largest cuts in history. Even if you personally don’t use
Historian Peter Turchin illuminates this possibility with his theory of “elite overproduction.” When societies generate more elite aspirants than ther
Digital activism tends to favor symbolic over violent resistance.
To describe the current situation in the executive branch as merely a constitutional crisis is to understate the significance of what we’re experienci
When older people ridicule us for being upset at the way life is, it is because they have come to accept that this is all life is and will be. I’ve be
43 per cent believe they are less happy than their parents were at our age, as they could find jobs, afford to buy homes, have children, or marry. Mos
The word community also came up more times than I could count, with young people desperate to live close to their friends (not their jobs) and have pe
There is a growing desire among Gen Z to reclaim their autonomy from their phones and remove themselves from what Shaz describes as a passive state of
To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you have to stop mindlessly consuming the Internet and start mindfully curating it.
But these answers lose the messy, endearing excess of any good Reddit thread. They appear like takeaways instead of teasers, final answers instead of
The anxiety isn't determined by the presence or absence of code. It comes from a lack of transparency and control. You are susceptible whether or not
Our lives will be more convenient and streamlined, but perhaps a bit less wonderful and wonder-filled, a bit less illuminated. A process once geared t
Much of what’s beautiful about searching the internet is jumping into ridiculous Reddit debates and developing unforeseen obsessions on the way to mas
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