Spare, very straightforward prose that unspools imaginative premises. A lot of amor fati going on.
Jul 28, 2024
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Read Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation: Stories if you liked Arrival (2016).
Jul 31, 2024
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I’m starting with Exhalation by Ted Chiang which I THOROUGHLY recommend. A bunch of short stories about humanity.
It’s sort of like black mirror if black mirror was hopeful and about the best in people coming out in bad situation.
Jan 6, 2025
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Obsessed with this Chinese sci-fi novel right now. It's putting to words a lot of the unavoidable existential dread that we're all trying to ignore. I'm not usually a big fan of super hard sci-fi because I'm for the most part scientifically illiterate, but this book does such a good job of making physics poetic and kind of horrifying.
Sep 20, 2022
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Sometimes it’s all that‘s really needed before going out
May 20, 2024
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A brief taxonomy of haters, in order of least to most worthy:
1. Contrarian - the worst kind; completely unmoored and childish. Sometimes lobbed as an insult unfairly but not always.
2. The Deranged - just hating on someone or something obsessively, usually deservedly but to the point of excess. I can kinda respect it but at some point you‘re just inflicting psychic damage on yourself.
3. The Principled Hater - a stone in the stream, a person with a vantage point and a sense of taste who understands their own subjectivity. Willing to give anything a fair shake but unwilling to pretend to like something they can’t bring themselves to.
May 21, 2024
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check songkick or other such sites for bands, wander around a neighborhood to find fun spots and thrift stores instead of relying solely on search engines. If you see someone at a gathering wearing something interesting, compliment them on it and ask them where they got it. In short you have to go out in the world and be attentive to it. Sorry if this is corny or useless.
May 30, 2024