Good poetry workshops have as much to do with listening as they do with talking; good poetry teachers are those with finely tuned ears, not fine pedigrees.

tonight i sit on the patch of grass behind my house and watch the stars edit the darkness

Today I learned the valuable lesson of the dry run. Testing out a software upgrade on a test instance proved to be a comedy of errors. Th...

Rather than fight it — or trying to surf a wave that isn’t there — he encouraged me to harness it. To breathe in the present moment and do the work that was in front of me.

The settings are stitched together with a color palette designed to read more as emotion than description. Light comes from mysterious sources, prioritizing symbolic meaning or emotional resonance over realistic interpretations. The resulting works come from a pursuit to add more context and understanding to places I purport to know, and to find reasons and ways to see them differently.

is your perfectionism even really helping?

Although I tell myself the writing in here is low stress and just for fun, three essays a week is still a whole lot, and I’ve been feeling for a little while like I’m running on fumes.

“Love someone back,” she wrote in a poem that I read the first day I realized I already loved her and always would. “You just begin.” So I began. Sometimes if I close my eyes, I can go back into that moment, finding the colors now reflected against the flesh under my lids; I can imagine her posture and her size, her eyes wide open, taking it in; and then, whether it actually happened then or not, her shoulder at my shoulder, her left hand slipped into my right hand, forever there.

In our math research we make countless choices. We chose a problem to work on, decide whether its claim is true or false, what tools to use, what earlier papers to study which might prove useful, w…

I have a string: let input = "Some text with <strong>an important part</strong>, then regular text." + " <strong>finally more im...

Letting go of perfection will not make you lose control of yourself. Perfection is a false control to begin with, and letting go of it is you actually re-centering yourself within your own life. You don’t sum up other people by how perfectly they do every last thing in their lives. It’s their simple presence that makes all of these things beautiful and worthwhile. Could you learn to see yourself the same way?

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We not only stand on the shoulders of giants but also work alongside them, destroying and collaborating, guided and guiding. And how can I act to make these days memorable, if not in my mind, then in my bones, in all that follows?

The resolution to this tension is that in general, a polynomial is not a function. You can associate a function with a polynomial by evaluating the polynomial for some value of x, but two different polynomials may correspond to the same function.

starting a thread on notable highlights from my @readwiseio reviews (can’t promise it’ll be daily, it’s not a habit yet) — this is one of my all time favourites, this book significantly changed my life: pic.twitter.com/oX6wQNm9Qp— Winnie Lim (@wynlim) April 17, 2021

And it's also an interesting proof of concept -- it's hard to imagine that this is the end of the story. Maybe it can be worked into a simple "check your conjectures" tool that would be of great help to mathematical researchers. 6/6— Timothy Gowers (@wtgowers) May 1, 2021

They need to realize that, as in a randomized algorithm, occasional failures are the inevitable byproduct of a successful strategy. If you always win, then you’re probably doing something wrong.

“There's always been this kind of unwritten rule at Basecamp that the company basically exists for David and Jason’s enjoyment,” one employee told me. “At the end of the day, they are not interested in seeing things in their work timeline that make them uncomfortable, or distracts them from what they’re interested in. And this is the culmination of that.”

When it comes to design: forget the database, pretend it isn’t there.

I am my own space station and astronaut. Drifting, drifting. So slight the tether yet how pliable.

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Piper Haywood wrote one of those very good posts last week — a cross-section of personal interests that manages to be both minutely specific and widely resonant.

A world with failing institutions may be survivable by the strong-willed, but a better world will always be one where strong institutions exist. If our surroundings are miserable, perhaps we’re better off acknowledging our malcontents. We should express our distress, and try to work together to change that environment, instead of reorganizing our inner feelings until we decide that the current (less optimal) world cannot possibly bother us. In a way this is a harder task than stoicism: It demands cooperation with others, which demands cultivating a much larger skillset than just willpower. Great empires, communities, and societies are not solo undertakings, they cannot be achieved by inner work. They require the attention of strong persons who refuse to discount the external world.

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But going back to this Joseph Campbell quote in the beginning. I let go of the life that I’ve been planning. So what’s the life that’s waiting for me? I have no idea. And this is the hardest part. This is the most painful part so far. Because I don’t know what my life is supposed to be about now. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. And every instinct tells me that I should be working at this, and working to figure this stuff out, but I’m only starting to realize that maybe this is something that I can’t work myself out of. Maybe I just need to be okay with being here right now, and not knowing.

In celebration of lockdown lifting (a bit), it's a high energy show this month, with quite a few classics in there too... Featuring Lis Sarroca, Butch, Shanti Celeste, and Anunaku

I have another birthday, and another bunch of unsolicited advice.    • That thing that made you weird as a kid could make you great as an adult — if you don’t lose it. • If you have any doubt at all … Continue reading →

I am a lot more okay with being lacking as a person. To be irrelevant, behind, unseen. For me, that is one of the greatest sources of stability and peace. Because of society conditioning we are always trying to signal something whether consciously or unconsciously, so just plain giving up is really freeing. Sometimes I wonder if this is all something I could have done much earlier in my life, but maybe I had to experience the conventional life to truly know that is something I do not want. I am just thankful to know this early enough.

What if I adopted another story? I’m enjoying building this project, and it will be ready when it’s ready. What exactly am I afraid will happen if I just let it unfold at its own pace? And honestly, how lucky am I to be able to wake up every day and spend my time working on something that I’m incredibly excited about?