The New Romantics

Collecting and archiving are ways to reclaim and own our attention—they are acts of meaning-making. These practices are rituals: habits and skills that demand time, patience, and a willingness to look beyond the surface.

To collect well is to resist algorithmic influence. A true collection reflects deeply personal values and a genuine desire to know... See more

For the most part, I was using my vast expertise in productivity to... make more content about productivity.

Myles helped me avoid an easy error:

Putting the tool before the craft.

The solution to the atomization curse that both gives us significantly more time back, and makes us much happier, is to seek to reintegrate these various foci of life as much as possible .

atomization encourages us to reduce multivariate experiences, often the most important parts of life, to their single most obvious element

Which brings us back to the question of traditionalism and dynamism, and their potential interaction: if you have had a cultural revolution that cleared too much ground, razed too many bastions and led to a kind of cultural debasement and forgetting, you probably need to go backward, or least turn that way for recollection, before you can hope to g... See more

Buying used books is the absolute antithesis of the subscription model that is destroying everything I love.

It is a mistake and a misreading of nature to think that you, a living creature, will be flourishing all the days of your life.