Justin Mather
@itsjustmath
all puns intended.
Justin Mather
itsjustmath.substack.com
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
—Terry Pratchett
The enforced cheer of American life never leaves you alone. From your first day on Earth, you are prodded and provoked with smiling plush toys and grinning mobiles and cloyingly sweet songs that insist on your consistent, unending happiness.
People who experience flow describe it as “a state of effortless concentration so deep that they lose their sense of time, of themselves, of their problems,” and their descriptions of the joy of that state are so compelling that Csikszentmihalyi has called it an “optimal experience.” Many activities can induce a sense of flow, from painting to raci
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TikTok has brought back 2000s-era digital cameras — and it’s worth the hype
polygon.com
Or maybe it’s that people are interested in dedicated, pocketable point-and-shoot cameras.
How Fred Again brought emotion back to the Dancefloor
youtube.comWhy a Half a Million Artists left Instagram for Cara Last Week
youtu.beArtists are leaving Instagram in droves Meta is making it downright near impossible to opt out of having their art be used to train AI
CodePen - Josetxu
codepen.io
Impossible carved cubes
My information consumption philosophy is simple:
(1) It must have a long shelf life.
(2) It must have taken considerable effort to create.
With these two principles, you can cut out most of the junk from your information diet.