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TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY
From a 1965 interview with sculptor Jean Tinguely. What happens at the base of our civilization is incredible. We go round in circles, there’s no question about that. But insofar as it’s dynamic, we advance. This domination by machine has produced an America that is a mad circus of automated, industrial machinery, such as we’ve notContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY”
TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY NINE
From On Being‘s interview with Adam Grant. DR. GRANT: So the agreeable people are the nice, friendly, welcoming, polite — and I just assumed if you’re nice to somebody that means you care about them. But there’s this whole class of people who would actually score in the data as disagreeable givers. They might be gruffContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY NINE”
TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY EIGHT
From computer scientist Ursula Martin in What to Think About Machines that Think. Reading the watery marshland is a conversation with the past, with people I know nothing about, except that they laid the stones that shape my stride, and probably shared my dislike of wet feet. Beyond the dunes, wide sands stretch across aContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY EIGHT”
TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY SEVEN
From Waldemar von Kozak, via Empty Kingdom.
TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY SIX
For M, from How To Keep Loving Someone. “You have to love someone in the cracks between the big moments. You have to grab their hand when you’re sitting on the couch watching Shark Tank together and you have to give them a little knowing look that says, “I see you and I love you here inContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY SIX”
TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIVE
By Adam Tan via Empty Kingdom.
TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY FOUR
Maciej Cegłowski, from What Happens Next Will Amaze You. “Here is Bill Maris, of Google Ventures. This year alone Bill gets to invest $425 million of Google’s money, and his stated goal is to live forever. He’s explained that the worst part of being a billionaire is going to the grave with everyone else. “IContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY FOUR”
TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY THREE
Sylvina Ocampo, The Pines (book here). You didn’t listen to the beating of a tree’s heart, couched against the trunk gazing upwards, you didn’t see the leaves moving with the throb of a heart, you didn’t feel the shudder of the swaying branches above your body, you didn’t listen to the heart of the pinesContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY THREE”
TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY TWO
Photo by Paloma Wool via berlin-artparasites.
TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY ONE
Rob Hunter: Luna in A Graphic Cosmogony, via Maria Popova.
TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY
From the Harvard Business Review: In my view, the main reason for the uneven management sex ratio is our inability to discern between confidence and competence. That is, because we (people in general) commonly misinterpret displays of confidence as a sign of competence, we are fooled into believing that men are better leaders than women.Continue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY”
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY NINE
From the road.
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY EIGHT
Nordic Affect, Clockworking.
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY SEVEN
I went to the Arlene Shechet exhibit at the ICA last month, and even though I’m normally a really well-behaved gallery-goer it took nearly every fibre of my being not to touch all the things. So much texture.
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