Stuart Evans

Pessimistic scopes – estimating that a project will take longer than it actually should and setting goals around that estimate – pushes out the time to complete the project. 
Setting an optimistic scope, however, makes the project move faster.

As a literary category, New Weird holds potential to unearth and update mysticism according to contemporary knowledge, much of which points to an existential threat on the species level. In Western mysticism, the transformational (alien) force beyond the limits of human consciousness was God. In Area X, maybe the divine is literally alien, or maybe... See more

This output of energy — the need to be patient, to tolerate lots of sifting, to engage in active effort — is precisely the opposite of the convenience/efficiency of highly sorted algorithmic feeds. There’s no shortcut to rewilding your brain, as far as I can tell.

When he thinks of the divine, it is not as some grand logician but as the poet of the world. God does not make the world but makes something of the world, allowing us to find or create meaning in the creative onrush of reality despite the wreckage of history. God leaves open the possibility of reconciliation even if it in fact never fully arrives.... See more