Taylor Pearson wrote a great article on the limits and dangers of rationalizing complex phenomena, and the opportunities of illegible ‘fat tail’ margins.
Some other gold nuggets in the article:
I love these places on the internet. In no particular order, for now.
Austin Kleon – Drawing writer with a great blog.
Brain Pickings – Maria Popova’s labour of love on books and other beautiful things.
Mr Motley – Great Dutch site about art.
Beeple-crap – Wonderful artist, became known for selling digital works as art with NFT’s. I think his daily work is immensely inspiring.
Boing Boing – Despite being somewhat North-America oriented, a beautiful site by my favorite internet person Mark Frauenfelder. (You will have to accept too many too disgusting ads, that are apparently needed to keep the site alive.)
booooooom – A beautiful art platform. Scrolling around cheers up your mind.
Swissmiss – A design blog it says, but it is much more. Run by Tina Roth Eisenberg. I would say it is her personal “thing that delight me on the web” log.
https://www.dirtyharrry.com – For a visual orgasm.
Seth Godin – Well, guess it needs no elaboration – Seth Godin’s blog. All about making a ruckus.
The Correspondent – Probably the most refreshing journalistic platform in the world, focusing on “unbreaking news”. Here the original (even better) Dutch De Correspondent.
Derek Sivers – Slow thinker comes to unique points of view. Now redirecting to https://sive.rs/. Hope he will re-start posting.
kk.org – A wealth of Kevin Kelly interesting initiatives, thoughts, articles, stuff.
elsadorfman.com – The website of Elsa Dorfman, 20×24 Polaroid portait photographer. An relatively old website I found recently after she passed away. This site keeps engaging me.
B – Blake Andrews’s long running blog. On (street) photography, and other interests from Blake.
Recomendo – another site/newsletter by Mark Frauenfelder.
Reminder to self. Push this one thing, every day. At least once every day. Do this year after year. Long form, short form, that does not matter. It is the consistency that builds the thing.
Incredible video for an incredible song.
Get on on Derek Sivers‘ great mailing list. Last week through this list he offered me the opportunity to buy his accidentally published book
“Hell Yeah or No“. I took the bait.
The saying “Hell Yeah or No” has become one of Derek’s more famous expressions, originating from the book Anything You Want.
The book Hell Yeah or No is a collection and rework of a number of Derek’s blog posts.One chapter in the book describes best what Derek is about.
My public writing is a counterpoint meant to complement the popular point.
Many articles in the book make you think “Mmm… yeah – that’s a good point of view too”.
A couple of week ago I purchased his other new book Your Music and People. Did not find room to read it yet. But expectations are up.