Minsuk Kang 강민석
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Minsuk Kang 강민석
if creativity comes to us in the shower, how do we first build that shower.
Put Your Butt in the Chair: Inside the Simple Alchemy of Making Art
인문학 열풍이라는 말이 있지만, 분명한 사실은 이렇다. 유명한 저자 책은 잘 나가지만, 인문학다운 책 대부분이 초판 팔기도 힘들다는 것. 인문학 열풍이라고 해도 기초학문을 다루는 학과는 사라지고 있다. 그래도 인문학을 읽어야 하는 이유는 공부하는 이유와 비슷하다. 우리는 자유로워지기 위해서 공부한다. 주변에 우리를 속박하는 것들이 많다. 벗어나기 위해서는 뭐가 우리를 옥죄고 속박하는지 알아야 한다. 인문, 역사, 철학 등의 책을 읽으면 우리를 가장 불편하게 하고, 우리의 자유를 무엇이 속박하는지 알 수 있다. 인문학 책을 읽어야 하는 이유는 우리가 자유로워지기 위해서다.
when you write you want someone to hear it. You do. I mean I don’t write thinking, “Oh Adrian and Kellie are going to love this.” But it’s just that the act of writing comes from a feeling, for me, of connectedness, usually. Or figuring why do I feel at one with this place or with these people or in this job or in this situation. And so just the... See more
Adrian Zupp • Lucia Berlin: Writing Advice and More in This Never-Before Published Interview
The incentives we bake into the products we build dictate which human desires we magnify. As we imagine new ways to create, distribute, monetize, and share
information, we’re also revealing what kind of people we aspire to be.
Space Exploration History: The Space Shuttle and the Horse's Rear End
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Another test you can use is: always produce. For example, if you have a day job you don't take seriously because you plan to be a novelist, are you producing? Are you writing pages of fiction, however bad? As long as you're producing, you'll know you're not merely using the hazy vision of the grand novel you plan to write one day as an opiate. The... See more
paulgraham.com • How to Do What You Love
Don't let "what I ate" be the most interesting part of the day.
The great thinkers are great not because they've created some set of museum pieces that can be catalogued, admired, and then safely ignored like a kind of antiquities gallery in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; but rather because they have defined the problems that all later thinkers and scholars have had to use in order to make sense of their world... See more