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Zhang Zifeng by Annie La, Vogue China, October 2023.
Zhang Zifeng by Annie La, Vogue China, …

A writer’s work is the product of laziness, you see. A writer’s work essentially consists of taking his mind off things, of thinking about something else, of daydreaming, of not being in any hurry to go to sleep but to imagine something . . . And then comes the actual writing, and that’s his trade. That is, I don’t think the two things are incompatible. Besides, I think that when one is writing something that’s more or less good, one doesn’t feel it to be a chore; one feels it to be a form of amusement. A form of amusement that doesn’t exclude the use of intelligence, just as chess doesn’t exclude it, and chess is a game I’m very fond of and would like to know how to play — I’ve always been a poor chess player.

Borges on the work of a writer
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I think best when I walk with nowhere to go

It was a shock to encounter them again—the way that beauty shocks. But more. What is beauty made of? Attentiveness whenever possible to a kind of aesthetic that escaped violence whenever possible—even if it is only the perfect arrangement of pins.

Beauty is a Method

"while pens and paper can be used in extraordinarily varied and unpredictable ways, apps can’t: the ways in which we can interact with them are determined with great specificity and no deviation from the designed user-interface paradigm is permitted"

Alan Jacobs - Against Apps, For Wander …

end of a cycle — we’re all superficially inspired by the same stuff, consuming the same content & looking for the same shortcuts

time to look inwards & break some rules

art comes first, the industry adjusts and follows whatever works afterwards.. not the other way around.