J. Danielle
@jasminedanielle
strategist. writer. tinkerer. hobby hobbyist.
J. Danielle
lettersfromthebside.substack.com
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 toward exploration will shift to extraction. Less meandering, more hunting.
archive.is
how AI impacts curiosity
The most important advantage of writing is that it helps us to confront ourselves when we do not understand something as well as we would like to believe.
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
Music in the Brain
Explores the cognitive neuroscience of music perception, emphasizing predictive coding, its impact on action, emotion, and learning, and implications for musical communication and creativity.
discovery.ucl.ac.uk
The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and interest. It’s not about the formal credentials. It’s fundamentally about play. It seems to describe a life where it’s just fun to be reading, learning, writing, and collaborating on... See more
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
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 feels hard, they must be doing it wrong.
Repetition, or scalability, is the enemy of taste, because in time it reveals a latent sameness in what we all like to like
Taste comes in lanes. To quote Susan Sontag again, “There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion — and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. One of the facts to be reckoned with is that taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good... See more