Jesse Burkunk
@jburkunk
Strategist in media and culture, a kind of chef, collector of adventurous music and good recipes. Plays music machines and cycles long distances for fun.
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Most of all: know where your desires came from. Your desires have a history. You can’t know what a ‘true’ or ‘authentic’ desire is unless you understand where it came from – and that involves diving deep into your past, understanding how you have evolved as a person, and seeing which desires have been with you for a long time and which ones have co... See more
Luke Burgis • How to Know What You Really Want | Psyche Guides
“People call romantic films ‘chick flicks’ as a way to diminish them, which I find unspeakably sad, not just for the way it excludes ‘chicks’ from the realm of ‘serious people,’ but also for the way it excludes ‘serious people’ from the realm of romance and love.
Dakota Johnson and director Celine Song rethink the rom-com with 'Materialists'
In this chapter I have tried to call your attention to many of the writerly habits that result in soggy prose: metadiscourse, signposting, hedging, apologizing, professional narcissism, clichés, mixed metaphors, metaconcepts, zombie nouns, and unnecessary passives. Writers who want to invigorate their prose could try to memorize that list of don’ts
... See moreSteven Pinker • The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
“Things that keep talented people from fulfilling their potential:
- Trying to please everyone
- Imitating the desires of others
- Chasing status without questioning why
- Playing superhero and trying to do it all alone
- Dividing attention between too many projects