Philip Soriano
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Philip Soriano
The easy, conversational tone of good writing comes only on the eighth rewrite.
Paul Graham • Taste for Makers
Writer and artist Austin Kleon uses two desks: an “analog” desk for generating ideas by hand, and a “digital” desk for refining work on a computer
To come up with new ideas, you have to have space to be messy, to procrastinate, and to let your mind wander and free-associate. But there needs to be a balance. You eventually need to channel it into something concrete, or you won’t produce anything.
Dasha Nekrasova • Jon Rafman and Dasha Nekrasova on the Horror We Call Life
I can see when two people are close in a way that blocks their energy from the rest of the world, insulated and intimate and barring others from entering. I can also see when two people are close in a way that supports each other in being more engaged with the world. I admire the couples who are able to inhabit both states: experiencing the kind of... See more
So the ideal worker norm — this is a term coined by Joan Acker. The ideal worker norm is the idea that adults today should be fully committed and entirely devoted to their jobs and their employers — available at a moment’s notice, unencumbered by external responsibilities that might diminish from their ability to perform their jobs well.
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Opinion | The Deep Conflict Between Our Work and Parenting Ideals
Caitlyn Collins on The Ezra Klein Show - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-caitlyn-collins.html?showTranscript=1
“Most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust,” Brereton argued, therefore “we resort to using Google, and appending the word ‘reddit’ to the end of our queries.” Brereton cited Google Trends data that show that people are searching the word reddit on Google more than ever before.
Charlie Warzel • Is Google Dying? Or Did the Web Grow Up?
But another Pew Research Center study shines a harsher black light on masculinity. Researchers asked women and men where they found meaning, fulfillment, and satisfaction. They found women found happiness through multiple sources, but men did not.
Carlyn Beccia • A Researcher Studied the Most Common Last Words of Suicidal Men
Dad deprivation still leaves boys vulnerable to Nazis—these days, neo-Nazi groups.
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
When you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better, and when you do it all crisply and efficiently, smartly, the way everything should be done but so seldom is—you’re participating more fully in the
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