Some recent Tuesday newsletters have been centered around some work I’ve been doing on “creative tensions” — pairs of opposites that contain within them generative possibilities. (Inspired by Heraclitus and Iain McGilchrist.) The most recent was the “warp and weft” of weaving. (Another related letter: “Resistance is necessary.”)
Amusing ourselves to death
In today’s newsletter, I wrote about Neil Postman’s 1985 book, Amusing Ourselves To Death, which begins: “Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us…. This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.”
I schedule the email to go out at 7AM, and by the time I get back from dropping the kids off at school and going for a walk, there are often dozens of interesting comments to read. Last week I simply posted an open thread and we ended up with almost 400 comments!
Truly my favorite place on the internet, though I’m still working out what goes on the blog and what goes in the newsletter. Always a work in progress…
Resistance is necessary
After reading my friend Alan Jacobs on friction, I finally read Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art and wrote about how resistance is necessary for creative work.
Spring diary walkthrough
In last week’s newsletter, I filmed a 15-minute walkthrough of my spring diary.
Summer mailbag
In last week’s newsletter, I wrote about receiving mail and what I think about happiness. (The comments are fantastic. Best thing on the internet right now.)
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