Maria Potoroczyn
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Maria Potoroczyn
- What did you do this year that you’d never done before?
- Did you keep your new year’s resolutions?
- Did anyone close to you give birth?
- Did anyone close to you die?
- What cities/states/countries did you visit?
- What would you like to have next year that you lacked this year?
- What date(s) from this year will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
- What was
Steph Ango • 40 Questions to Ask Yourself Every Year
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
as far as you can manage it, you should make sure your psychological centre of gravity is in your real and immediate world – the world of your family and friends and neighborhood, your work and your creative projects, as opposed to the world of presidencies and governments, social forces and global emergencies.
Parenthood likewise forces an encounter with the illogic of the market: good fortune means getting to pay someone less than you make to do a job that’s harder and probably more important than your own.
Jia Tolentino • Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion?
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 moreHere are some other techniques people use to access and maintain the zone:
- Introducing a long delay between when you do the work and when it is shown to the world. Annie Ernaux writes about this in A Simple Passion, a memoir about how she becomes obsessed in a banal way with a man who is having an affair with her—the thought that others will read
Substack • Notes | Substack
cool ways to push yourself to create outside of comfort zone and outside of well trodded paths
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
confront a central tension of greatness: would a saner person who is less of an asshole be capable of similar feats?