J. Danielle
@jasminedanielle
strategist. writer. tinkerer. hobby hobbyist.
J. Danielle
lettersfromthebside.substack.com
The opposite of distraction is traction.
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your life – Nir Eyal (via Ali Abdaal)
Instead of pointing out, “What tech is doing to us...” what if we asked, “What are we doing to
ourselves
?”
This past year I ate at a restaurant which placed cute, chest-like boxes on each table. It was a gentle, decorative nudge to place your phones in there while dining. I loved it . Past tense. After the third time eating there, I thought: “ How... See more
ourselves
?”
This past year I ate at a restaurant which placed cute, chest-like boxes on each table. It was a gentle, decorative nudge to place your phones in there while dining. I loved it . Past tense. After the third time eating there, I thought: “ How... See more
Matt Klein • Unplugging Is Not the Solution You Want
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. Most definitively, in 2024, the World Happiness Report found that Gen Z is the unhappiest generation today, particularly in the US.
Halima Jibril • What would make young people happy?
Repetition, or scalability, is the enemy of taste, because in time it reveals a latent sameness in what we all like to like
Stephanie Millar - Freelance Creative, Strategist & Copywriter
stephmillar.ca
Lists, and verbs, will carry you many a dry mile.
To imitate or not to imitate — the question is easily satisfied. The perils of not imitating are greater than the perils of imitating.
Always remember — the speaker doesn’t do it. The words do it.
Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
The idea must drive the words. When the words drive the... See more
To imitate or not to imitate — the question is easily satisfied. The perils of not imitating are greater than the perils of imitating.
Always remember — the speaker doesn’t do it. The words do it.
Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
The idea must drive the words. When the words drive the... See more
I found my return to scrolling to be profoundly uninteresting
It’s an ‘Artist’s Way’ fall, Embedded
Southern University’s post-1987 funding disparity is $1.1 billion. In the past 35 years alone, the larceny amounts to a whopping $13,055,622,325 — an average of nearly $816 million per institution
I have a theory that the average beauty routine expands in direct proportion to political upheaval. Call it the Aesthetic Index.