Philip Soriano
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Philip Soriano
There are three types of friendship, Aristotle says. The first one is based on pleasure—the way our relationship in high school was all about laughing, or the way you can date someone because they are hot and make you feel good. The second is based on utility—you’re friends because it is useful, because your friend plays drums and you need a... See more
friendship and
When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic gravity well, a magnet for what would otherwise be a mess of iron filings. I’ll read books differently and listen differently in conversations. In particular, I’ll remember everything better; everything... See more
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
Creativity vs Productivity and What does my Anxiety feel like?
It feels like my anxiety tries to control the this gravitational pull.
The key to overcoming this precondition is to make writing a multi-pass process. Visual art is multi-pass: artists start with a rough sketch that captures the general idea for their composition. Then they go through and do a more detailed sketch, turning the rough lines into recognizable features, fiddling with proportions and placement until each... See more
On Writing and Why write?
Writing is iterative!
A quote from Japanese author and Buddhist monk Yoshida Kenko way back in 1330(!) on the value of reading books:
“It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.”
“It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On saying no, the importance of focus, and reading books
The high centrality participants, Sievers and his coauthors wrote, were much more “likely to adapt their own brain activity to the group,” and “played an outsized role in creating group alignment by facilitating conversation.” But they didn’t merely mirror others—rather, they gently led people, nudging them to hear one another, or to explain... See more
But what if the art is the experience, and the NFT only represents ownership of the art? Or rather, what if the token isn’t the art but a way of making it possible to sell the art?
Should Art Museums Collect NFTs?
Love-making is an internal exercise which helps restore imbalances in bodily chemistry. A moderate amount of sex tends to repair hormonal disturbances, to reduce cholesterol and blood pressure levels. Sexual activity alters the body chemically. The reason this happens is because each gland in the body affects all the others. Thus when sex hormones
... See moreMantak Chia, Michael Winn • Taoist Secrets of Love
The easy, conversational tone of good writing comes only on the eighth rewrite.