Minsuk Kang 강민석
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Minsuk Kang 강민석
That's what leads people to try to write novels, for example. They like reading novels. They notice that people who write them win Nobel prizes. What could be more wonderful, they think, than to be a novelist? But liking the idea of being a novelist is not enough; you have to like the actual work of novel-writing if you're going to be good at it;... See more
paulgraham.com • How to Do What You Love
So much genius and money has gone into a metaphor that assumes the zenith of humans desire to be status and likes and influence and conven- ience and efficiency. Humans want all those things. But we also want to be inspired. To be delighted. To express our deepest desires. To seek truth. To be moved. To create. To be challenged.
Quotes from Taleb’s The Bed of Procrustes.
Once I write a story, it’s gone, it’s like it’s not mine anymore. And I’m not tempted to edit it or change it.
Adrian Zupp • Lucia Berlin: Writing Advice and More in This Never-Before Published Interview
Like Borges’s library, we are tasked with sifting through the internet’s “divine disorder” to find what is worthy of our attention. The question, now, is how to sculpt a better Library of Babel – a better information infrastructure – that lends itself to the advancement of knowledge and wisdom conducive to human flourishing.
Perhaps the oldest and most fundamental question that I wish to examine in the course of this semester is the question: what is a regime? What are regimes? What are regime politics? The term "regime" is a familiar one. We often hear today about shaping regimes or about changing regimes, but what is a regime? How many kinds are there? How are they... See more