Salman Ansari
@salmanscribbles
embracing my inner polymath — writing, drawing, coding, playing
Salman Ansari
salman.io
Love this. Inspires me to write fables in which the animals get the better of us. or not even fables but stories. Maybe the animals teach us the moral, in an indirect way.
“Again I followed—to find now that the third bait was gone—and the king-wolf's track led on to the fourth, there to learn that he had not really taken a bait at all, but had
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A good summary of the positives from leaving Substack
On how the Montana, Wyoming and Idaho wildlife policies have regressed to political goals rather than biological ones. They are aggressive and cruel, and not even effective.
Time it took to reach 100 million users worldwide:
Telephone: 75 years
Mobile phone: 16 years
World Wide Web: 7 years
iTunes: 6.5 years
Twitter: 5 years
Facebook: 4.5 years
WhatsApp: 3.5 years
Instagram: 2.5... See more
World of Statisticstwitter.comAs John Lasseter likes to say, ‘our films don’t get finished, they just get released.’” – Pete Docter, Pixar (source)
TWN Issue 15: Embracing a "Fractal Bud" in Knowledge
Reminds me of how I knew when my stories are done: There are always still problems, but you reach a point where fixing them will only create new ones.
Work on becoming more attuned to all your senses such that you can notice minute differences between things. Study all the little differences between similar things, and why you like one better than the other. The world wants you numb. Being a student of nuance is an act of rebellion.
-Kepano
'Once you were a child. Once you
knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions
because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them.
Become that child again: even now.' —C.S. Lewis
