Links 2024-10
A list of links to things I liked & shared with friends this month:
A comment on intellectual curiosity and empathy
- A thoughtful perspective and insight into what it feels like to constantly be a specimen and the subject of academic dissections.
The collapse of self-worth in the digital age
- There's been a lot said about this topic already, but I appreciated how this story explores the impact of metrics on writers and artists.2
Please write it, do not stream it
- On content format and the asymmetrical investment of time between content creator & audience. This is here because I am the choir that it preaches to.1
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- 8-bit music is so fun.
I've missed Sam for a long time (or: Pick Your Battles)
- A heartfelt reflection about love and loss and grappling with the conflict of differing worldviews. Truly, an "axe for the frozen sea inside us."3
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- A poetry bot about the small things. 🌸
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- An illuminating conversation between 2 friends on gender expectations & presentation in Taiwan.
Why AI isn't going to make art
- On art and intention and communication and the thousands of little choices we make.
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- Some clever Halloween costumes. 🎃
See Things I hate, bullet 4. ↩
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? ...we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us." —Franz Kafka ↩