Van Newman

@van

techno-critical writer / dystopian studies hobbyist / idea guy

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Friday Black — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Too often, aspiring artists put pressure on themselves to make their creative work their only source of income. In my experience, it’s a road to misery. If art is your sole source of income, then there’s unrelenting pressure on that art, and mercenary pressure is the enemy of the creative elves inside you trying to get the work done. Having another

Timothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

you are not alone in the struggle

"We do not exist “in” our bodies anymore. We snapped a part of our brains and eyes and we implanted them on our mobile phones. A part of our brains is Google itself now, and we are not ashamed to use this extrapolated brain and its capabilities incessantly. As the mind-body duality dissolves itself into an entanglement of elongations of

technoskepticism