Martin Black
@martinxo
all the endless things
Martin Black
martinblack.substack.com
In our chosen fields we shall understand our authors better if we read what they read, see what they saw, believe for the moment what they believed, enjoy the art and music of their day, enter into their enthusiasms and hatreds, fight their battles with them, hobnob with their fellows, in a word, be their most intimate associates in all respects.
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... See moreIn theory, I think what you’re talking about here is precisely why Jewish tradition mandates the observance of Shabbat. What would it be like to take one day each week away from the to-do lists, the obligations, the unread blog posts, the inchoate obligation to be witty on twitter or facebook or [insert online social space here]? In my line of work
A big part of passive learning is going out of your way to read and learn from the widest variety of topics you can, intentionally looking for similarities between different fields. When you do, you’ll be stunned at how easy and fun it is to stumble on a new idea that teaches you how the world works.
Collab Fund • Active vs. Passive Learning
I don’t remember everything I read. But I do believe memory is an obligation, as St. Augustine encourages us, for the imagination is composed of the things we remember—books, art, liturgy, life experiences.
Reading up to 2024
the rest is silence
Shakespeare - Hamlet
the final line of Prince Hamlet
to live an enchanted life and maxims
John Ruskin from The Seven Lamps of Architecture
is not to see scenery, you can see finer at home. It is not to see places where great people lived and died, that is a stupidity. But it is to see men. To enlarge your mind, which will never be enlarged by looking at a large hill, but by conversing with, and seeing the bent of the minds of other people.