Fiction resists summary
It is an interesting feature of stories and fiction that they resist summary. You cannot read a summary of Anna Karenina and somehow stockpile its pleasures and charms. Narrative resists compression.
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Good advice
Art by Eve De Haan. Photographer unknown. /via Future Now / are.na
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Dashboards
“every dashboard is a sunk cost / every dashboard is an answer to some long-forgotten question / every dashboard is an invitation to pattern-match the past instead of interrogate the present / every dashboard gives the illusion of correlation / every dashboard dampens your thinking”
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Snowy night vibes
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Go light
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January
By Stanley Roy Badmin.
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Link blogs rock
Sharing interesting links with commentary is a low effort, high value way to contribute to internet life at large.
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Doing good versus doing nothing
In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn’t been good versus evil. It’s hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing.
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People are following their “personal taste curation” instead of “mass consensus.” /via Jorge Arango
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From Eternity! Eternity! by Vincent Glielmi. /via booooooom.com