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I’m quaking in my boots, but I’m here.
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Some writers supply the solid virtues of a husband: reliability, intelligibility, generosity, decency. There are other writers in whom one prizes the gifts of a lover, gifts of temperament rather than of moral goodness. Notoriously, women tolerate qualities in a lover — moodiness, selfishness, unreliability, brutality — that they would never... See more
A.O. SCOTT • How Susan Sontag Taught Me to Think
Susan Sontag in “Camus’ Notebooks”. Just. So worthy of being a card.
The furor she sparked with a few paragraphs written for The New Yorker after the Sept. 11 attacks — words that seemed obnoxiously rational at a time of horror and grief — had not yet died down.
A.O. SCOTT • How Susan Sontag Taught Me to Think
The world often dictates that there is a right way - to think, to feel, to be. To grieve. Perform any of this in deviation from what’s deemed acceptable, and suddenly, you become unacceptable. But what’s the point in living in a time of free speech and an opinion at every corner if what you truly feel can actually find little place in the world?
Viewed with the chastened hindsight of adulthood, their seriousness shows its ridiculous side, but the longing that drives it is no joke. It’s a hunger not so much for knowledge as for experience of a particular kind. Two kinds, really: the specific experience of encountering a book or work of art and also the future experience, the state of... See more
A.O. SCOTT • How Susan Sontag Taught Me to Think
Begin what? Nobody quite knows. And yet, it makes perfect sense. The logic doesn’t work, but the emotional we all echo.
The popular Venn diagram in use today was actually never even part of Ikigai. It was created by a Spanish astrologist named Andres Zuzunaga. Marc Winn, an innovation consultant, then married the Venn diagram with the Japanese concept of Ikigai, and it just took off from there.
But where did Ikigai itself come from? The earliest attribution I could... See more
But where did Ikigai itself come from? The earliest attribution I could... See more
Ikigai Ruined My Life
Project-Based Existence in an Ikigai Life
Breaking the myth of Ikigai - SOURCE CHECK
We write entire essays in our heads while doing laundry, walking to the shop, or brushing our teeth — but the moment we sit down at a laptop, it’s like our brain unplugs itself from the wall.
Jessica Millssubstack.com
Just so beautiful, and I’ve only begun reading
This should follow from the excitingness rule. Obviously the most exciting story to write will be the one you want to read. The reason I mention this case explicitly is that so many people get it wrong. Instead of making what they want, they try to make what some imaginary, more sophisticated audience wants. And once you go down that route, you're... See more
This is the exact point I was trying to make - what's the point in creating for an imaginary exacting audience, especially when you can create for yourself instead.
One reason per-project procrastination is so dangerous is that it usually camouflages itself as work. You're not just sitting around doing nothing; you're working industriously on something else. So per-project procrastination doesn't set off the alarms that per-day procrastination does. You're too busy to notice it.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
Doing my “main work” has kept me from doing “my work”
Develop a habit of working on your own projects. Don't let "work" mean something other people tell you to do. If you do manage to do great work one day, it will probably be on a project of your own. It may be within some bigger project, but you'll be driving your part of it.