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John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them

The Chief

David Nasaw

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Left-brain thinking will destroy civilisation

Iain McGilchrist unherd.com

arranger Gil Evans,

Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz

“Because there’s an endless amount of data available to us and we have a limited bandwidth to conserve, we might consider carefully curating the quality of what we allow in.” From The Creative Act by Rick Rubin

No, my worry is that, you won’t put enough really excellent stuff into your brain. I’m talking about what you might call the “theory of maximum taste.” This theory is based on the idea that exposure to genius has the power to expand your consciousness. If you spend a lot of time with genius, your mind will end up bigger and broader than if you spen

the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it—perhaps as much more valuable as roots are more vital than grafts. It is good that new ideas should be heard, for the sake of the few that can be used; but it is also good that new ideas should be compelled to go through the mill of objection, opposition, and contumel

Will Durant • The Lessons of History

He wasn’t around the Current TV office too often, but he was around when it mattered, and he was always curious and kind. Graceful. He told a story about the kernel of the network’s concept, which was a story about human evolution, the way visual media hacks our brains, and the urgent need, therefore, to make visual media that is actually good. He ... See more

Robin Sloan • The Golden Door

aristocracy. Lumberjacks by day, conductors of the philharmonic