Molly Simpson
@spagmol
thinker, feeler, third-wheeler
collecting dots here, connecting them there ￬
Molly Simpson
spagmol.substack.com
It’s not the wave that changes you, it’s the erosion.
Hot crumpets with butter and jam – what could be more ambrosial? The day I can’t enjoy these pleasures will signal some kind of death of the soul.
William Boyd • Any Human Heart
Freedom to feel and experience the full spectrum of human experience. I don’t want to be arbitrarily chained down in anything I didn’t choose — ever.
(Molly Mielke on Audience of One)
In some cases carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
(Albert Camus)
stop trying to be cool girl
youtube.comlove the simplicity (and therefore effectiveness) of the format combining recording, draft doc and internet searches. just superb.
And now I could sort of gesture at what I liked—kind people who are intellectually voracious and think it is cute that I obsess so hard about ideas that I fail all status games.
Henrik Karlsson • Looking for Alice
Our entire picture of the world has to be altered even though the mass changes only by a little bit. This is a very peculiar thing about the philosophy, or the ideas, behind the laws. Even a very small effect sometimes requires profound changes in our ideas.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol. I Ch. 1: Atoms in Motion
Still hard to believe that access to infinite information made us dumber
Dylan O'Sullivansubstack.com