Because there’s nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that’s what’s most precious… You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But […]
From Susan Cain’s The Rise of the New Groupthink: – Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption. And the most spectacularly creative people in many fields are often introverted… – Conversely, brainstorming sessions are one of the worst possible ways to stimulate […]
From what may be my favorite piece of writing from DFW: The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. – David Foster […]
I still don’t know whether or not to like an interesting article on a fascinating topic, my intended amour for the sentiment rather than the event. I’m not certain how my sarcasm is being met, nor if my lack of comment on the passing of a celebrity signals contempt for […]
And yet pain hurts but it doesn’t kill. When you consider the alternative — an anesthetized dream of self-sufficiency, abetted by technology — pain emerges as the natural product and natural indicator of being alive in a resistant world. To go through a life painlessly is to have not lived. […]