Maria Potoroczyn
@mariapotoroczyn_1
Maria Potoroczyn
Ah newthing, we think. I know what you are. Making you will be easy. The path is straight and sure. The newthing hears your boasts and does not react, but knows how much you have to learn. As you build the newthing you will discover that building a newthing is a strange act where the harder you go about trying to do it, the harder it becomes. It
... See moreLeave the newthing unattended too soon and you risk it serving purposes you did not intend and might not be in its best interests. Hold the controls too tightly and you risk denying the newthing what it wishes to be and where its purpose is best served.
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
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
It can be worth forgoing marriage for sex, and it can be worth forgoing sex for marriage. It can be worth forgoing parenthood for work, and it can be worth forgoing work for parenthood. Every case is orthogonal to all the others. That’s the entire problem.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
But what if the coming revolution is a silent one that will be led by those who, in the face of this increasing activity and ear-splitting noise, choose the anti-mimetic path? Who grow quieter and more intentional?
Luke Burgis • The Case for Silence
Taste comes in lanes. To quote Susan Sontag again, “There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion — and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. One of the facts to be reckoned with is that taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good... See more
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
Nobody is wrong 100% of the time. Always look for the nugget of truth in those you disagree with.
Nobody is right 100% of the time. Always look for the faults and mistakes in those you agree with.
Nobody is right 100% of the time. Always look for the faults and mistakes in those you agree with.
what’s up friends, enemies, and everyone in between including and especially the people who only see at a party once every three years but every time you do you just sit in a corner and talk and its a gangbusters good time like wow this person is great so great in fact that they KNOW not to harang you with the ‘omg we should hang soon’ garbage... See more