Marta Pyr
@martpyr
Marta Pyr
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of claiming it
Sari Azout • Things I'm thinking about
You can mentally replace the “generative” in generative AI with generic by the way, and it honestly works better (totally fine for some things, but you have to know where).
How 'The Time Machine' explains the future of knowledge work
Love that
An easy way to think about this is many are constantly eating a form of cultural Big Mac every day, while Michelin-quality food is just a click away, but essentially invisible because it requires a tiny amount more work. They don’t even know they’re doing this, how this affects their mind, or what they’re missing.
Adam Singer • Don't let machines or the crowd decide your world
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an
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Tove Jansson Alice in Wonderland illustrations
In infinite games, there is no finish line. No point where you can declare victory and be done. The meaning isn’t in the outcome—at least for me, it’s in the continuous unfolding, the endless discovery of what’s possible, the deepening of one’s capacity to learn and serve
Do You Have to Grind to Be Great?
https://www.oblique.pouruntemps.com
wikipedia.org • Oblique Strategies
Another prompt generator offering constraints to problems through prompts Brian Eno. Could be used for the drawing tool