Maria Potoroczyn
@mariapotoroczyn_1
Maria Potoroczyn
My boyfriend and I had just hired a nanny to spend three days a week caring for our baby, to do a kind of work that I’d been shocked to find intimately rewarding but also far harder than anything I’d ever tried to do for eight hours straight. We could afford to do this because a person can get paid more to sit in front of her computer and send a... See more
Jia Tolentino • Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion?
When we recognize true taste, we are recognizing that alchemic combination of skill and soul.
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
After a period of the private and public losses of a global pandemic, where physical danger was other people, these safe, joyful, raucous public moments are rewiring us. These events are giving thousands of people a shared experience of physical release and joy and recovery – collectively. If for three years, we were trained to physiologically lean... See more
to be known is to be seen clearly, else its best to not be known at all
When the U.S. Air Force developed rocket planes that could break the sound barrier, the pilots who flew them kept dying.
As planes reached speeds near Mach 2, pilots would lose control due to the thinner air in the upper atmosphere. As Tom Wolfe describes in his book The Right Stuff:
“A plane could skid into a flat spin… and then start tumbling, not... See more
As planes reached speeds near Mach 2, pilots would lose control due to the thinner air in the upper atmosphere. As Tom Wolfe describes in his book The Right Stuff:
“A plane could skid into a flat spin… and then start tumbling, not... See more
By some measures you are lucky these days to get 47 seconds of focused attention on a discrete task. “Middlemarch” is tough sledding on that timeline. So are most forms of human interaction out of which meaningful life, collective action and political engagement are made. We are witnessing the dark side of our new technological lives, whose
... See more“You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes everyday — unless you’re too busy; then you should sit for an hour.”
- Dr. Sukhraj Dhillon
You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world.
Aaron Freeman • Why You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral - The Now
You aren’t the same person after a good night’s sleep as you are after a sleepless night. But which person is you?