New Wave: the Hybrid Hokusai
This image we know and love – the classic ukiyo-e woodblock print, as Japanese as Tsunamis and Mount Fuji, one of the launchpads of Japonisme,… Read More »New Wave: the Hybrid Hokusai
The Map Is Not The Territory
Today’s helpful reminder comes via this week’s The Whippet (highly recommended): The Limits of Scale “And then came the grandest idea of all ! We… Read More »The Map Is Not The Territory
Love and Clusters: (more from) Tyler Cowen and Russ Roberts on Reading and How to Read
Highlights from Cowen and Roberts’ recent conversation on Econtalk. On reading for love Cowen: …don’t read stuff you don’t love reading. That’s the simplest point… Read More »Love and Clusters: (more from) Tyler Cowen and Russ Roberts on Reading and How to Read
Wonder Stories: Early Science Fiction
“I tried questioning him. I pointed at a pyramid and asked ‘People?’ and indicated the two of us. He set up a negative sort of… Read More »Wonder Stories: Early Science Fiction
Tomáš Halík on Wrestling with God
Si comprehendis, non es Deus. “If you have understood it,” – or think you have understood it – “then you can be sure that it… Read More »Tomáš Halík on Wrestling with God
Dominic Cummings on High Performing Teams
Creating high performance teams is obviously hard but in what ways is it really hard? It is not hard in the same sense that some things are… Read More »Dominic Cummings on High Performing Teams
James Lovegrove Reveals the Truth About Sherlock Holmes
The manuscripts arrived at my house a fortnight later, and I unsealed the package straight away and got to reading. The paper was yellowed and… Read More »James Lovegrove Reveals the Truth About Sherlock Holmes
That Within Which Passeth Show (on Isomorphic Mimicry)
QUEEN GERTRUDEGood Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.Do not for ever with thy vailed lidsSeek for… Read More »That Within Which Passeth Show (on Isomorphic Mimicry)
Intuition plus Iteration: George Saunders on Writing as Editing
Make it better. Make it more specific. We often discuss art this way: the artist had something he wanted to express, and then he just,… Read More »Intuition plus Iteration: George Saunders on Writing as Editing
Monkeyminds; or, Fiddlesticks
… and so it seems to me that in this most twenty-first of centuries we live our lives in a state of unending distraction. The… Read More »Monkeyminds; or, Fiddlesticks