"A thick desire is one that changes you in the process of pursuing it.
A thin desire is one that doesn't."
A thin desire is one that doesn't."
Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life
The defining experience of our age seems to be hunger.
We're hungry for more, but we have more than we need.
We're hungry for less, while more accumulates and multiplies.
We're hungry and we don'...
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January 3, 2026 at 12:11 AM
"A thick desire is one that changes you in the process of pursuing it.
A thin desire is one that doesn't."
A thin desire is one that doesn't."
Reposted by Aaron
I teach critical writing for the art department at The City College of New York. The following is a short thread full of words from people who are smarter than me about the vital role that artists play in society generally, and doubly so in the face of authoritarian regimes.
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November 8, 2024 at 3:10 PM
I teach critical writing for the art department at The City College of New York. The following is a short thread full of words from people who are smarter than me about the vital role that artists play in society generally, and doubly so in the face of authoritarian regimes.
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“I’d do this obsessively, hoarding a broad-enough dataset on which to model my behaviors in the hopes that one day … it would feel natural to me. And the refrain that most haunted my thoughts … was, ‘Good God, how do I stop living like this? And how do other people just know what’s allowed?’”
I Was Diagnosed With Autism in My 40s. It Gave Me a Lot of Answers.
By 43, Mary HK Choi had come up with many explanations for her strangeness around other people. Was it something else all along?
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May 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“I’d do this obsessively, hoarding a broad-enough dataset on which to model my behaviors in the hopes that one day … it would feel natural to me. And the refrain that most haunted my thoughts … was, ‘Good God, how do I stop living like this? And how do other people just know what’s allowed?’”
"Every time you release a creative work into the world despite being no more than 70% satisfied, you’re not only bringing something into concrete reality. You’re also expanding your ability to act in the presence of feelings uncertainty, so that you can take more ambitious actions, later on."
The Imperfectionist: Seventy per cent
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February 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"Every time you release a creative work into the world despite being no more than 70% satisfied, you’re not only bringing something into concrete reality. You’re also expanding your ability to act in the presence of feelings uncertainty, so that you can take more ambitious actions, later on."
Apropos.
How to Weather the Storm
Without really meaning to, this week I’ve posted a few related articles around the theme of how to survive the next four yea
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February 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Apropos.