Josh
@jpw
Josh
I don't make resolutions, ever since I discovered the two perfect ones years ago:
1. Become a more terrifying version of yourself.
2. Do what you already do, but more so.
1. Become a more terrifying version of yourself.
2. Do what you already do, but more so.
Bluesky
Merry Christmas Eve.
While preparing for holiday festivities yesterday I listened to over 100 recordings of my favorite traditional Christmas carol: God Rest You Merry Gentlemen.
Here's a thread of the top 7. I award extra points for creativity, fullness of sound, and house party appropriateness.
While preparing for holiday festivities yesterday I listened to over 100 recordings of my favorite traditional Christmas carol: God Rest You Merry Gentlemen.
Here's a thread of the top 7. I award extra points for creativity, fullness of sound, and house party appropriateness.
Bluesky
Multitasking, in short, is not only not thinking, it impairs your ability to think. Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it.
The American Scholar • Solitude and Leadership
Here’s the other problem with Facebook and Twitter and even The New York Times. When you expose yourself to those things, especially in the constant way that people do now—older people as well as younger people—you are continuously bombarding yourself with a stream of other people’s thoughts. You are marinating yourself in the conventional wisdom. ... See more
The American Scholar • Solitude and Leadership
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Patriarchal Labyrinth: A Review of "Heretic" - Sunstone
sunstone.org
This is a crucial point: conspiracy culture does not challenge the hyper-individualism that is at the heart of so many crises reaching their breaking points. Instead, it mirrors it, putting all the blame for society’s ills on singularly powerful individuals: Fauci. Gates. Schwab. Soros.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
The effect of conspiracy culture is the opposite of calm; it is to spread panic.
