Renee De Four
@reneedefour
Renee De Four
And in a move that can only be described as digital self-flagellation, I'm manually importing my Readwise highlights. Why? Because I'm a masochist, obviously.
The Great Note-Taking App Shitshow
🌀 Agnes Martin - My Rabbit Hole of Exploration
Here is the answer to the question I asked in the first post. Agnes Martin discovered that painting was all she needed to be fulfilled in this life. I wonder at what age in life did she discover this? Was it an innate knowing or did she struggle?
I envy people like this who know what their “thing” is. I’m 30 years old and it frustrates me deeply that I don’t have a strong affiliation with one thing. Whether that’s writing, or reading, painting or playing an instrument. I’m starting to wonder if I need to try new things?
What I do enjoy - building workflows with digital tools, solving problems by creating systems does not feel like an artistic thing!
I can build and perfect a Notion or Tana workflow for hours until a solution is found but something feels like it’s missing. Maybe it’s because it’s not tangible like painting?
I don’t know but I think I need to pick up pottery - maybe that will be my thing.
Update 1/4/25 9:15 pm - This quote also reminds me of Hirayama from Perfect Days. He too discovered something far more precious than material accumulation.
personal corpus—our collection of information, thoughts, ideas and organised works.
Christopher Roosen • Time and Entropy Waits For No One, So Build Your Own Corpus Proprius, Your Personal Information Network — Christopher Roosen
You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
Emily Temple • “Write a Sentence as Clean as a Bone” And Other Advice from James Baldwin
Well, I've been living on the crumbs of your love
And I'm starving now
