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The painting is called Reading at a Table, and it is about exactly that: a woman sitting alone at a table, reading a book by lamplight. Her body seems
Projects have been filed, things are being read and re-read, the work seems to be going vaguely in the right direction. I should be happy, or at least
Instead of 'telescoping', how about 'kaleidoscope-ing' here, i.e. "To move in shifting (and often attractive or colourful) patterns." - https://en.wik
Collecting and archiving are ways to reclaim and own our attention—they are acts of meaning-making. These practices are rituals: habits and skills tha
This stems from the structure of the web — it’s a tangle of links, a jumble of interconnected ideas. It fractalizes our attention, nudging us to leave
‘...she takes a stiff-bristled brush and loads it with a dark greenish-brown, the colour of first shade, and with sweeping movements, she covers the i
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it,
Writing for Substack feels pleasantly furtive to me. None of my academic friends or acquaintances know about my little blog, and I’d be kind of embarr
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results...Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits.3
Things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. I must graft. I must water, as with lettuce. Ripening goes on in my mind. So I’m always wo
Computer Science in the 1960s to 80s spent a lot of effort making languages which were as powerful as possible. Nowadays we have to appreciate the rea
Links are the “checkpoints” of your thinking process. Remember that moment when you had a trail of thoughts and someone asked you a question? That
Zettelkasten Method: How to Take Smart Notes
How to Write a Note That You Will Actually Understand • Zettelkasten Method
The absence of shame makes trying—to do something new, change how you usually act in a difficult moment, cultivate a practice or ongoing habit that ha
Most of the time, “What should I do with my life?” is a terrible question. “What should I do with this tennis serve?” “What should I do with this line
There’s a game I sometimes play at the museum: ‘what kind of painting am I today?’ Never, despite my best attempts, am I an angelic Botticelli. When h
