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“We would be faced with a fairyland geometry, a hall of mirrors whose horrifying perspectives would be more than the civilized mind could bear, as it abhors and flees from all it cannot comprehend.”
Benjamin Labatut • When We Cease to Understand the World
Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture
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The studio provides a stable platform, the financial and human resources, a place where creation can happen.
Attila Szigeti • Startup Studio Playbook: For entrepreneurs, pioneers and creators who want to build ventures faster and with higher chance of success. Master the studio framework and start building.
Taking all this in and thinking about the young artists I admired, I had every reason to be concerned, especially for my friend Botond Részegh, a Transylvanian artist whom I’ve known for over a decade. His fantastic illustrations helped tie together the science and history narratives in my previous book, Bursts, and I’ve long admired his paintings,
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Louise Erdrich, David Mitchell, Don DeLillo, Julian Barnes, Chuck Palahniuk, Gillian Flynn, and Lauren Groff would play with devices (like multiple points of view, unreliable narrators, and intertwining story lines)
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
that holds open a contemplative space against the pressures of habit, familiarity, and distraction that constantly threaten to close it.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Our thought shapes the spaces we inhabit, and our spaces return the favor.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.