Ella Jefferies

Incongruity: The general state of being out of harmony or at odds with its setting or context.

vacuous/ˈvakjʊəs/ Learn to pronounce adjectiveadjective: vacuous1. having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless.

forcing women into a state of perpetual self-scrutiny and control.

The decline of deviance is mainly a good thing. Our lives have gotten longer, safer, healthier, and richer. But the rise of mass prosperity and disappearance of everyday dangers has also made trivial risks seem terrifying. So as we tame every frontier of human life, we have to find a way to keep the good kinds of weirdness alive. We need new... See more

Standardizing your writing also standardizes your thinking

People usually assume that we don’t make interesting, ornate buildings anymore because it got too expensive to pay a bunch of artisans to carve designs into stone and wood.6 But the researcher Samuel Hughes argues that the supply-side story doesn’t hold up: many of the architectural flourishes that look like they have to be done by hand can, in... See more

“For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite.

In the words of Paulo Coelho, when each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to notice the good things that happen in their lives every day the sun rises.

When the words “purpose,” “progress,” and “success” begin to sound like broken echoes.

We scroll through our feeds, chase recognition, and build our fragile identities out of data, yet beneath it all hums a quiet dread: