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“I don’t know what it is like to not have deep emotions. Even when I feel nothing, I feel it completely.” -Slyvia Plath.
The most authentic, fleshed out, truly female-centered narratives (e.g. Little Women and My Brilliant Friend) all include Time as a main character.Wom
Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” is so canonical now that we have forgotten how radical its basic argument was, or rather, we have absorbed the
Yana Lee 15 AprI think a lot of women are taught to translate disappointment into patience
On a recent episode of New Models, Orit Halpbern noted that AI feels fundamentally different to all other technologies that came before, in that it ca
..it is possible that every bit of complex technology will in its turn reveal to us something about ourselves we did not know. Part of inventing and t
When ordinariness is elevated, does it risk becoming extraordinary, and thereby losing its essential character? Here, there’s a paradox. If we value o
The second way of finding a meaning in life is by experiencing something—such as goodness, truth and beauty—by experiencing nature and culture or, las
Nobody warns you that the self is interesting. Not useful, not productive, not in need of refinement, just genuinely interesting, like a city you have
Perhaps the more difficult obstacle to overcome is that students and parents may not like it. In a tough white-collar job market, with the threat of A
Along the way, they have been given an opportunity to learn what many people don’t learn until well into adulthood, if they even learn it then: A good
You can no longer make students do the reading or the writing. So what’s left? Only this: give them work they want to do. And help them want to do it.
An alive culture replaces distraction and escapism with mindful attention, direct experience, active participation, creative expression, deep connecti
“The realchallenge is you’re less likely to have private thoughts. Privacy is aboutlooking inwards, not outwards—thinking something and doing thingsth
Our point is not “nothing to see here, move along”. Indeed, unpredictable societal effects have been a hallmark of powerful technologies ranging from
There is a long causal chain between AI capability increases and societal impact. Benefits and risks are realized when AI is deployed, not when it is
According to Keltner’s book, seeking “brief moments of awe is as good for your mind and body as anything you might do.”
you should read the word “I” as a name for a sort of collective of people that meets up in me. I try to keep that in mind all the time.
The greatest minds are not products of thinking, but miracles in feeling
In general, we humans are wired to want to reduce uncertainty in our environments. That’s partly because of how we adapted to live in a world where fo
A zen koan can be a paradox, or a question, or even a snippet of poetry, that’s designed to guide your mind past rational, conscious thought and onto
Something Charlie Chaplin said: "Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind b
Although we process information, we do not do it the way that computers do.” Even to ask the question, he argues, of “whether a computer has captured
We've fallen for the trap of thinking something doesn't exist if it isn't on the Internet. Maria Popova: "The internet is a surface level of the oce
Go, even though you don’t know exactly why you can’t stay. Go, because you want to. Because wanting to leave is enough. Get a pen. Write that last sen
It means that if you yearn to be free of a particular relationship and you feel that yearning lodged within you more firmly than any of the other comp
“You mean to say,” I asked, “that people don’t really want out of the relationship itself, they just want out of the dynamic?” “That’s right,” she sai
But also—I think we’ve gotten kind of weird about reading books like reviewers, in the age of the internet. I saw a bit of a video once where this asp
“When Sontag read Gide’s journals, she identified so deeply with his thinking, she wrote, ‘I am not only reading this book, but creating it myself.’”
The difference between schools and libraries From John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground
Something else happens in a world of superabundance, and an attention economy. Because you can’t find what you want, you start to dig yourself into ve
It seems to me that, through the way Reddit and YouTube and social media work, there’s such an emphasis on creating distinctions and communities, and
