Interestingness
“It’s not about making yourself interesting. It’s about making the world interesting.” Russell Davies
Interestingness
Scenarios: Uncharted Waters Ahead
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The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.
‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It (Published 2017)
MEUTE - LoCKeDoWN2
youtube.comElectronica marching band. Delicious.
Dreaming · Duke Ellington
youtube.com“this isn't piano. this is dreaming.” - a truly wonderful line.
I think that every writer should have a question they can ask that there is no end to the pursuit of. Every writer should have questions big enough and pressing enough and multi-faceted enough and unanswerable enough that they occupy their entire life, however long or short it is
Jenny Zhang on writing the secret languages inside your head
“People get better at regulating their impulses. They learn how to distract themselves from temptations. And once you’ve gotten into that willpower groove, your brain is practiced at helping you focus on a goal.
Charles Duhigg • The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
“If your opinions on one subject can be predicted from your opinions on another, you may be in the grip of an ideology. When you truly think for yourself, your conclusions will not be predictable.” – Kevin Kelly