A lovely passage by John Kaag on spending time in the mountains.

Crossed 70k mark of the ostensibly 80k manuscript!

Gonna need to start perhaps the least fun part of being a writer in 2025 “dear xxx, would love a blurb”

Immanuel Kant never left his home town, Koenigsberg (today's Kaliningrad), never married, never changed his daily schedule or his diet, and died, presumably happy and mildly bored, at the age of 80. His last words were: "It's fine."

Flashes of the final scene coming to me as I run; the end is truly in sight, but will need the remaining nine months to obsessively polish until the prose sings

“Everybody knew that the whole peloton was taking drugs and I had a choice. Either I buckle and go with the trend or I pack it in and go back to my old job as a painter. I regret lying but I couldn’t do otherwise.” —Alex Zülle💉💉💉

American Volkisch ideology is just a succession of false memories drawn from Hollywood and advertisements.

Nazis and velodromes, velodromes and Nazis

Everyone talks about AI slop. No one talks about PE (private equity) slop. - restaurants that lost their soul - medical practices that feel like assembly lines - apartment buildings designed by an Excel formula The algorithm didn’t kill culture. The margin model did.

I’ve been thinking about this David Foster Wallace quote more and more recently “The technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images

Twitter: anyone heard of the silent era actress and director, Fern Andra— trying to gauge her relative fame

For my haters

The fact that Trump is building a 250 million dollar ballroom while millions of Americans are days away from losing food stamps tells you everything you need to know about the utter impunity that he and his admin feel.

While I don’t think getting a humanities PhD is necessarily a fantastic career decision given the circumstances, I am extraordinarily grateful that I got a serious education while it was apparently still possible to do so

Boston-based Life Biosciences is set to be testing age reversal in humans in the coming months. Stay tuned. Wish them luck🤞

I’m not a medievalist, so I don’t know the extent to which it is apocryphal but true or not, I think a lot about the Irish monks working on manuscripts to preserve culture and humanity a lot as of late

The CP Snow-era two cultures problem now looks quaint…not science versus the humanities but stupidity and rage versus decency and light

Rewatched Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse. I understand why so many abhor this film, but if you’re willing to abandon all hope, surrender to its grueling monotony, & be governed by its sepulchral atmosphere you’ll have one of the most transcending cinematic experiences of your life.