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"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another..."

"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing."

- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (via bluesandbarebones)

"Where is the line between promoting the good work of others and simply lifting it?"

"Where is the line between promoting the good work of others and simply lifting it?":

austinkleon:

David Carr writes about efforts to shape a code of conduct for content aggregators online, including Maria Popova's new website, The Curator's Code.

A code for remixing was something Kirby and I were trying to squeeze out of yesterday's SXSW panel (not sure we succeeded) and something I've been thinking about since I drew this "Good Theft vs. Bad Theft" chart for Steal Like An Artist.

white people: I wish I lived in the forties! Everything was so much COOLER back then, you know?

white people: I wish I lived in the forties! Everything was so much COOLER back then, you know?


japanese people: nope


walking people: nope


thai people: nope


black people: nope


latin@ people: nope


cuban people: nope


native people: nope


korean people: nope


desi people: nope


jewish people: nope


queer people: nope


vietnamese people: nope


chinese people: nope


disabled people: nope

How to Write Without Reservation

How to Write Without Reservation:

There is this nagging thought that says, "what if someone on the internet thinks I'm WRONG??". That's a vestigial fear coming out, like being worried about tigers or alpha male chimpanzees. The more rational concern, and the one you should focus on, is "does anyone even know that I exist?" The only way to solve this is to write.

You're worried about being controversial? That is a good problem to have, it means someone cares enough to write a reply. And if you are wrong? Well, you learned a lot quicker than you would have if you kept it to yourself. Seems like a good deal.

Just ship it.

The Aporeticus: Ways Not to Write

The Aporeticus: Ways Not to Write:

mills:

[I]t is better to admit that 'I'm paying attention to the wrong things' than to claim that 'the world has grown meaningless' or that 'my phone keeps me from noticing sunsets.' It is not my phone and it is not Facebook that kept me from the sunset yesterday. It was the everydayness of life that Walker Percy's Binx Bolling claims is what keeps us from "the search." But this search seems strange to undertake when there is nowhere undiscovered, no meaning not mediated, no knowledge not within a larger system of knowledge, no boundary past which we do not spill in great crowds, no text immune to annotation, no event which is not subsumed by its live-posted trails of reactions in the cultural agar.

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known..."

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with a compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."

- Elizabeth Kubler Ros (via curiositycounts)

Hong Kong In The Rain by Christophe Jacrot

Hong Kong In The Rain by Christophe Jacrot

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XKCD: The Pickup Artist

XKCD: The Pickup Artist