This week, #alien enigmas in ancient #Japan, Tiny Yu’s monstrous #fish #sculptures, tips to avoid bad decisions, #chickpea and potato stew recipe, #Rothko explained for those who don’t get it and much more! #ContentCatnip #InterestingThings
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Comforting Thought: Great art gives homage to the finest examples of humankind
“Artists are the perpetual defenders of living creatures, precisely because those creatures are alive. They truly advocate to love whoever is close by right now, and not those far in the future, which is what debases contemporary humanism, turning it into a catechism of the courthouse. Quite the reverse: a great work of art endsContinue reading “Comforting Thought: Great art gives homage to the finest examples of humankind”
Book Review: HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (Vol. 2) (Harvard Business Review Press)
Distilling insights from decades worth of essays for Harvard Business Review. This collection shows you how to bounce back from setbacks, how to be resilient. Aside from some cringey moments it’s worth a read. #HBR #Business #Books #Review #Career #Psychology
10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #159
Adorable blobby #sculptures, Kagurazaka street after rain, tips to become a better #storyteller and #writer, hand building a tiny house in the woods in 3 months, baked sweet potato #recipe and much more #InterestingThings #ContentCatnip
The world is unpredictable right now
What are your future travel plans? I’m not sure when this would happen given the current shitshow state of the world, but would really love to travel around. I have a list of unusual destinations: Alaska and the Canadian Yukon. I want to see some wolves, bears and moose in the wild and photograph them.Continue reading “The world is unpredictable right now”
Comforting Thought: Be Like the Mayfly
“The experience of the world as one individual is so fleeting it is barely even measurable; especially when held up against the great passage of time felt since Earth’s conception. As humans, we arrive and pass like a mayfly spiraling on a breath of wind for its single day of life in the sun. OurContinue reading “Comforting Thought: Be Like the Mayfly”
Albert Camus: Art’s Corruption Under Brutality
“Brutality is never temporary. It does not respect the boundaries set for it, and so it is natural that brutality will spread, first corrupting art, then life. Then, out of the misfortunes and bloodshed of humankind, we see born insignificant literature, frivolous newspapers, photographed portraits, and youth-club plays in which hatred replaces religion. Art thenContinue reading “Albert Camus: Art’s Corruption Under Brutality”
Comforting Thought: An irreplaceable friend
“An irreplacable friend is someone who:
highly values your trust
appreciates your honesty
naturally feels like family
still loves you as you change
finds it easy to laugh with you
holds space for you in tough times
supports your happiness and safety
helps you to believe in your self-worth
inspires you to love and know yourself”
What bothers me and why
What bothers you and why? AI-produced slop: as a stand-in for real and soulful human creativity. People can recognise the beauty of other people’s work and long may it remain. The comfort of apathy: people being too lazy or willfully naive to actually face the genocide that is going on in Gaza. History will notContinue reading “What bothers me and why”
10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #158
Coldness as a melody, gliding through a river with a magnificent #cat and #fox, why people give up and how to overcome it, #Japanese ambient #music, #vegan shepherd’s pie #recipe and loads more. It’s edition 158 of #InterestingThings by #ContentCatnip
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