Legendary technology writer Steven Levy offers an unprecedented look at the inner workings of the company and culture that continues to shape our everyday lives.
“It is the task of the artist to lead the leaders by staying at the threshold.”
“Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern… the whole world is a work of art… there is no Shakespeare… no Beethoven… no God; we are the words; we are the music; we ar…
Eighty years before marriage equality, a progressive lens on human love.
Favorite E-reads of the Month: August/September. Read some of my favorite articles from The Write Conversation, Writer Unboxed, Brainpickings, She Makes Time, Psychology Today, and The Quest for th…
Our speaker at the May 2011 CreativeMornings/NewYork was Maria Popova of Brain Pickings (http://www.brainpickings.org/). The event was generously hosted by General…
A former firefighter and lifelong adventurer’s clarion call for the joy of adventure in a culture obsessed with risk-averse achievement.
“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
“We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.”
“The main thing is that life-faith is essentially and vitally present, by means of which we survive.”
“When someone exposes himself as a slave in the market place, what wonder if he finds a master?”
“An experience makes its appearance only when it is being said. And unless it is said it is, so to speak, non-existent.”
“Any experience carried out deeply to its ultimate leads you beyond yourself into a larger relation to the experience of others.”
“A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist.”
From Medieval sword-fighters to Broca’s brains, or why the hand may hold the key to the link between creativity and mental illness.
Anatomy of introversion, inside the brain’s optimism bias, and a blueprint for doomsday from PC Guy.
“The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.”
“Reality is never and nowhere more accessible than in the immediate moment of one’s own life. It’s only there that it can be won or lost.”
“Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.” Artist Wendy MacNaughton captures Sontag’s most private meditations on love.
“Information is what our world runs on: the blood and the fuel, the vital principle … transforming every branch of knowledge.”
“That lady whom I look upon as a great man… She understands Newton, she despises superstition and in short she makes me happy.”
“Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy.”
“Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise.”
“Everything good needs time. Don’t do work in a hurry… For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.”
“Boredom … protects the individual, makes tolerable for him the impossible experience of waiting for something without knowing what it could be.”
“Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.”
“Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.”
An existential quota held in three long fingers.
From the universals of first love to the complexities of geopolitical history, a tender tale of becoming.
