Yanis Markin

the accumulation of learning, an inevitable byproduct of the process of growing up, takes us not closer to but further away from our creative source

Bill Bernbach’s letter of resignation from Grey in 1947, warning about the hidden costs of scale is the best thing I've read this year https://t.co/QNGwf1qF5h

It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days.

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...an endless, 24/7, transcendentally corporate, transcendental survey, instantly collecting and collating human habits to move towards what? Very possibly not late capitalism but something like pre-quantum capitalism — pre-infallibly predictive capitalism?

...and the situation couldn’t even be properly categorized as like a “conspiracy” or some... See more