December 2010
14 posts
“You do someone a tremendous disservice if you teach them that pain in life is a...”
– Greg Lukanioff, of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, warns against the sensitivity caused by excessive political correctness in universities, which are supposed to foster debate and help kids develop a thicker skin. Read this excellent story in Spiked Online.
— From SF.
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Frank Chimero: Proust, Busyness, Speed →
viafrank:
Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is a challenge. (And many would say a pleasure.) During Proust’s life, an American woman living in Rome thought to write the author after devoting three years of her life to reading his work.
“I don’t understand a thing, but absolutely nothing. Dear…
Off the record →
bobulate:
Chuck Klosterman interviews Jonathan Franzen on an Acela between Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.:
… I allow him to give his answer off the record. During the three minutes my recorder is off, he provides one of the most straightforward, irrefutable, and downright depressing answers I’ve ever experienced in an interview. His posture relaxes. His language simplifies. Nothing is...
“… it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight...”
– - Bill Watterson
I was looking for a totally different quote, but like this one a great deal.
The 30 steps to mastery →
bobulate:
Ben Casnocha extends a two-step process for “How to Draw an Owl” with a few more to proclaim how to achieve mastery:
See also: How to Write a Book in Three Easy Steps
1. Start 2. Keep going. 3. You think you’re starting to get the hang of it. 4. You see someone else’s work and feel undeniable misery. 5. Keep going. 6. Keep going. 7. You feel like maybe, possibly, you kinda got...