Katherine Garnett

"We don’t remember things by modifying our past memories – we simply accumulate more, as if adding entries to a log or a journal. We search through them by traversing time, looking for links between ideas and experiences."

Writing is not the outcome of thinking, it's the place where thinking takes place. Only once your thoughts are out of your head can you begin to make sense of them.

“People need to know more than what a piece of information means. They also need to know how the information matters.”

keep your repertoire private to avoid external pressures and maintain authenticity; don't force the process by dumping random content, as meaningful collections take time to develop; collect ambivalently and passively by saving anything that evokes emotion, even without immediate purpose; and avoid rigid rules or organization systems that disrupt... See more

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Evolution invented REM sleep, that ministry of dreams, to give us a safe way of practicing the possible into the real. The dreams of the night clarify our lives. The dreams of the day complicate them,

The Moon is leaving us because of the gravitational conversation between it and the Earth: the ocean tides. The drag they cause slows down the planet’s spin rate. Because gravity binds the Moon and the Earth, as the Earth loses angular momentum, the Moon overcompensates in response; as it speeds up, it begins slipping out of our gravitational grip,... See more