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Resonant Thoughts: Nicholas Carr’s “Superbloom” (2025)
“The way we see the social and political environment, the way we create a picture of reality through the welter of messages furnished by our ever more encompassing media, is and always will be refracted by scanty attention, by the poverty of language, by distraction, by unconscious constellations of feeling, by wear and tear, violence, Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Pico Iyer’s “Aflame: Learning from Silence” (2025)
“The point of being here is not to get anything done; only to see what might be worth doing” (16). “There’s no such thing as dead time when everything is alive with possibility” (24). “It’s never possibility that’s not present; only me” (27). “When one keeps quiet, the situation becomes clear” (62). “Leisure is where Continue reading
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On Writing Tools
• iA Writer. For everyday writing I use iA Writer, an app for Mac OS and iOS. The app is quite expensive, and you need to purchase one version for the phone and another for the computer, but it’s well worth it. iA Writer looks pleasingly minimal and cloud syncs perfectly across devices, so if Continue reading
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