2025-06-03 00:07:00
RT 🕊️
kids demand the same story every night drive me crazy. read it once they want it again. same words same ending same everything. think they're being lazy. but they're not listening for entertainment they're listening for proof. testing if the world has rules that stick. if good still wins if bad still loses if love still saves the day. every repeat is them checking if reality is stable or if everything changes when nobody's watching. adults read thinking we're giving them stories. kids listen knowing they're downloading the operating system for life. they need to hear it fifty times to believe it once. that the universe doesn't lie. that patterns hold. that some things stay true even when everything else breaks. we get bored because we already know how it ends. they keep listening because they need to know it will always end the same way. this is how trust gets built. one repeated story at a time
2025-06-02 22:19:20
RT Soleio
“I can’t hide in writing the way I can in conversation.”
Extraordinary interview on writing, journalism and communication.
Writers consistently have clearer ideas about taste than designers.
2025-06-02 02:59:05
I believe that all great artists are psychic. By psychic, I mean that they’re able to sense things about reality that other people are blind to.
For an analogy, think of the light spectrum. Humans can see visible light, but not UV, X-Ray, or microwave rays. But if your only sense of the world came from your eyes, you’d think visible light was the only type around.
I submit that much of reality works like this. Humans are remarkably similar, but we’re not all the same. Some people are gifted (or cursed) with unique sensitivities, and artists translate these sensitivities into a form that others can experience.
When we’re awestruck by art, it’s often because the artist captured something about reality that was absolutely true and absolutely real, but we could’ve never articulated on our own.
This is a secret ingredient for great art: to sense things below the register of ordinary consciousness. This is something you probably have to be born with, and if it can be cultivated, it’s very difficult, and often, forged in the fire of excruciating pain.
Now, look… I don’t have any hard evidence for this. This theory is purely speculative. But it’s a mind expanding one. Or at the very least, a question to reflect on.
Next time you’re in the presence of a great artist — a writer, a painter, a musician, whatever — it’s worth asking: How is this person psychic?
2025-06-02 02:01:27
If you’re serious about your craft, it’s worth devoting serious effort to cultivating a friend group with good taste that calls you out whenever you get lazy.
2025-06-02 01:58:26
Years ago, a mentor said to me: “It’s your job to have the highest quality standards of anybody you work with. You’ll face pressure to lower them every day. Don’t do it. If you can set a high standard and simply maintain it, you’ll do very well for yourself.”
2025-06-01 11:42:58
RT Bryce Roberts
“What's happening when you spend seven hours reading a book is you spend seven hours with your mind on a single topic. The idea that o3 can summarize it for you is nonsense. ChatGPT outputs don't impress themselves upon you. They don't change you."
