Samarth Bansal

@samarthbansal

Writing gave words permanence. Typewriters reduced the friction between having a thought and transferring it onto a page. Computers reduced the cost of editing thoughts after you typed them. The internet made it possible to send your words anywhere, instantly, for zero cost. And now AI will help you think through ideas more completely as you type t... See more
from Writing with Machines by Every
Manifesto for slow learning:
1. Focus on direction, not destination
Immerse yourself completely in the journey and you will reach your final goal gradually.
2. Raise your hand
Asking questions is a fundamental human right.
3. Learn at your own pace
Find your rhythm, find your flow. Don’t compare yourself to others.
4. Unplug
You have the right to d
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from Slow Learning by Austin Kleon
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 — even in that we skip forward — 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... See more
from Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Maria Popova
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps
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from Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
when you get rid of life’s annoyances, you also have gotten rid of life. Small nuisances provide texture, repose, form, cushioning. Also, a lot of our social bonding is created out of shared annoyance—much of what connects us is our small, similarly timed miseries. The more you opt out of our collective material imprisonment, the more you opt out o... See more
from This Post Not Sponsored By Unbound Merino by Sasha Chapin
In a world where no one is compelled to work more than four hours a day every person possessed of scientific curiosity will be able to indulge it, and every painter will be able to paint without starving, however excellent his pictures may be. Young writers will not be obliged to draw attention to themselves by sensational pot-boilers, with a view
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from In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
A system which lasted so long and ended so recently has naturally left a profound impression upon men’s thoughts and opinions. Much that we take for granted about the desirability of work is derived from this system and, being pre-industrial, is not adapted to the modern world. Modern technic has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be n
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from In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell

from Writing with Machines by Every

from Slow Learning by Austin Kleon

from Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Maria Popova

from Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

from This Post Not Sponsored By Unbound Merino by Sasha Chapin

from In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell

from In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell