Sriya Sridhar
@sris
Academic studying privacy and attention, seeking things that make sense and perpetual calm. Lit and poetry are my first loves
Sriya Sridhar
quote from American Childhood (Annie Dillard):
There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to concentrate on. There was joy in effort, and the world resisted effort to just the right degree, and yielded to it at last. People cut Mount Rushmore into faces; they chipped here and there for years. People sl
... See moreWe are so obsessed with seeing if AI can do the things we do, but the real potential is things humans are in capable of. What can’t you do that is now possible? 
The document discusses René Girard's theory of mimetic desire and its implications, analyzing how desires are formed socially and the role of identification in desire acquisition.
by René Girard
The Til – The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
"When everything is readily available and consumable, contemplative attention is impossible." (Byung-Chal Han, Vita Contemplativa)
Five things on being astonished:
“It is an astonishment to be alive, and it behoves you to be astonished.” — Katherine Rundell, paraphrasing poet John Donne
“If you attend thoughtfully to what you already have, you need nothing more. It’s all here.” — Claire Messud
“Let me / keep my mind on what matters, / which is my work, / which is mostly standing
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Analysis of Martin Heidegger's essays on technology, science, metaphysics, and Nietzsche's philosophy, exploring the essence of technology, the turning of modern age, and the impact on human existence.
The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays by Heidegger
“Every journey is a question of sorts, and the best journeys are the ones in which every question opens into deeper and more searching questions.”
— Pico Iyer, The Pilgrim’s Way on Waking UpA quote by Stephen Fry:
“Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know w
... See moreTo pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. - Mary Oliver