Toby Henderson
@tobyellow
Toby Henderson
The universe writes me love letters in the form of
Substack - A new economic engine for culture
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You know that beneath the curated exterior, there's nothing substantial.
And that knowledge is eating at you. That's why you keep consuming more content, curating more takes, sharing more thoughts that aren't yours. Because if you stop, if you're quiet for even a moment, you'll have to face the emptiness.
And that knowledge is eating at you. That's why you keep consuming more content, curating more takes, sharing more thoughts that aren't yours. Because if you stop, if you're quiet for even a moment, you'll have to face the emptiness.
You've been so focused on seeming interesting that you've forgotten to actually BE
The quote finishes “…be interesting.” But I wanna argue that the final ‘interesting’ is redundant because actually ‘being’ is the interesting bit.
You have a collection of other people's thoughts that you've assembled into something that vaguely resembles a personality.
I shall be very grateful to you if you help me to weed out bad grammar but I do not think I would like my longish sentences clipped too close, or those drawbridges lowered which I have taken such pains to lift. In other words, I would like to discriminate between awkward construction (which is bad) and a certain special— how shall I put it—... See more
Naikabov writing to their editor in 1948
Hickey drew a distinction between the concepts of simple and easy . Simple is the opposite of complex, where easy is something that’s familiar to us: the term he used to describe the concept of easy that I really liked was at hand .
Lorin Hochstein • Easy Will Always Trump Simple
ebullience