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But the essay as a literary form has long preceded the internet. So has the debate over the aesthetic metrics of a good essay. Merve Emre cites Virginia Woolf’s 1905 screed “The Decay of Essay Writing,” where Woolf bemoans the “amazing and unclothed egoism” of a new class of writers. “If one can set aside [Woolf’s] disdain, there is a larger point,... See more

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An essential part of making perennial, lasting work is making sure that you’re pursuing the best of your ideas and that they are ideas that only you can have (otherwise, you’re dealing with a commodity and not a classic).

Ryan Holiday • Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts

“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing” - Ben Franklin

Patrick OShaughnessy x.com

Taylor Swift needs marketing. She needs teams of people, working around the clock, to make us care about her work.

Yet for some reason, we believe that the moment we put our work out into the world, everyone is going to spit out their coffee in rapt attention. The truth is far more liberating.

—Tina Jiang, Product Manager at Faire

Aashay Sanghvi • Five Startup Ideas #002 | The Generalist

Excellence is a marathon, not a sprint. By focusing on what truly matters in the moment and letting go of absolute perfection, you, too, can achieve sustainable success. To put the principles of intentional imperfection into practice, you just need to adjust those three ambition dials: Identify perfectionist patterns. Before you can start embracing

Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World

Of the many ways universities tie into the fabric of our modern life, I think the most complex, and the most under-appreciated today, is that universities are astonishingly prolific, self-sustaining community factories. The reinvention of the university is inevitable, but a long road stretches ahead, and the job will not be complete until we build ... See more

Linus Lee • How to kill the university | thesephist.com

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. —Michelangelo

Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

It’s interesting with art. Some people have the ability—and the energy—not just to make the work, but to make sure it’s put in exactly the right place, at the right moment. Some artists realize they have to spend as much time as it took them to get an idea in finding the way to show it, and the infrastructure to support it. And some artists just do