Stephania Correa

We’re drowning in content.

Every platform, every scroll, every second—more inputs, more noise, mo⁠

⁠re things trying to hook your attention. The old metrics of intelligence—who memorized the most, who spoke the loudest, who finished the book first—don’t mean much here.

In an age where AI can generate anything, the question is no longer "can it be... See more

“It was proof that I had not always been completely alone in this world. But I think I was also holding on to the loss, to the emptiness of the house itself, as though to affirm that it was better to be alone than to be stuck with people who were supposed to love you, yet couldn’t.”

― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

According to Edmondson, to call a failure intelligent, it must meet four criteria:

Relate to an area you don’t have knowledge in.

Be in pursuit of a goal.

Not be a random guess but hypothesis-driven.

Result in a failure that is as small as possible.