Kasturi Kiri
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Kasturi Kiri
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
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Zettelkasten - how to write clear notes
[Persistent self-love]...is not the feeling that I am awesome all the time. Instead, it is the total banishment of self-loathing. It is the deactivation of the part of my mind that used to attack itself...It’s the sense that, while I might fuck up, my basic worth is beyond question—I have no essential damage, I am not polluted, I am fine.
Celine Nguyen • you are good enough as you are
Self love means you don’t question your basic worth.
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 satisfied! But I am not! The only thing that has defined this period is a vague, indiscriminate ennui that pervades everything. It’s like I’ve been pouring myself into a vessel that’s too small. Or... See more
Michael Rance • 'You Can Live the Wrong Life'
You might not be pouring your energy into the right thing.
For five years, I’ve ceased to experience with shame what can be experienced with pleasure and triumph (sexuality, jealousy, class differences). Shame spreads over everything, prevents any further progress.
Celine Nguyen • you are good enough as you are
Actively counterbalance shame with pleasure, pride and joy.
Shame is unnecessary and contagious.
Card quote from Annie Ernaux’s Getting Lost
“The concept of the sacred and the archival is being lost because of the novel environment of the internet.”
-Eric Weinstein
The inundation of information on the internet means meaningful ideas get lost.
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.
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