J. Danielle
@jasminedanielle
strategist. writer. tinkerer. hobby hobbyist.
J. Danielle
lettersfromthebside.substack.com
Tips for Decorating Your Space From Cool People in Design
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Many young people are furious about the economic lot they have drawn by being born into an era of significant wealth inequality
Rob Estreitinho (Salmon Labs) https://x.com/robistyping
Let’s expand the concept of “elite”in the way that Hughes meant it, not as the condescension of class but as the elevation of the mind and the preservation of standards.
Tina Brown • As we enter a period of unmitigated crassness in public life, I find myself guiltily dreaming of frivolity and luxury.
Sycophancy has a kind of momentum. Like any form of groupthink, it is part conformity, part self-preservation. The first person to grovel is undignified, but each subsequent act of cowardice allows the next person to acquiesce more easily.
the dawn of the great uncancelling
For, if one is aware that these know-hows will naturally, yes, automatically, arrange themselves into creative and productive patterns in response to human necessity and demand— that is, in the absence of governmental or any other coercive master-minding—then one will possess an absolutely essential ingredient for freedom: a faith in free people.... See more
I, Pencil
Relates to O’Donahue’s assertion that knowledge/gifts are not merely for us alone.