Kasturi Kiri
@shoesatthe_door
Kasturi Kiri
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 embarrassed if they found out about it—my posts are earnest and often clumsy, and my cartoons are, um, artless. But I am enjoying the fact that writing, for this platform at least, is beginning to feel like... See more
Isaac Kolding on Substack
Being an anonymous creative frees you up to create naiive, sincere and imperfect work - and find joy in it.
You're going to get depressed because your sense of self-competence is overly reliant on FAST RESULTS.
Nat Eliason • Tweet
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 at Starbucks?” “What should I do with this traffic jam?” “How should I respond to the anger I feel welling up in my chest?” These are better questions. Excellence is the next five minutes,
... See moreTimothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
Stalogy notebooks (which I wrote about for the One Thing newsletter ), a Sailor fountain pen with water-resistant black ink, and a red Sakura Pigma Micron pen.
Petya K. Grady • Issue 104: The Reading Life of... Celine Nguyen
stationary
In the being mode, remembering is actively recalling words, ideas, sights, paintings, music; that is, connecting the single datum to be remembered and the many other data that it is connected with.
Erich Fromm • To Have or To Be? (Continuum Impacts)
Remembering is active.
Any one memory contains multiple references to other memories.
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 fragments of our mind trapped in open tabs like a thousand tiny horcruxes — open loops feeding off our attention until they wither away, replaced by our latest distraction.
There’s a bottleneck here:
... See morethesolarmonk.com • A Spacebar for the Web
How do you create context from a tangle of disparate ideas?
DECOR — The Diarist - The Diarist
thediarist.co.uk
vintage
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,
they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.
—Steve Jobs
did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it,
they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.
—Steve Jobs
Christian • Create Zettel From Reading Notes According to the Principle of Atomicity • Zettelkasten Method
Creative people make connections between pre-existing ideas