Rightsizing life
The reduction of ambition rightsizes one’s life. Suddenly, those magnetic forces, trophies, hefty pocketbooks, and rich attractions lose their lure. All the stylization and mimetic...
Tag: people
The hunt for lost desires
We humans hunt for desires, only to realize that chasing the same materials leaves us feeling empty. Consuming in a desultory fashion is not what...
What does it mean to be me?
Sociologist Erving Goffman believed that all human interaction was a theatrical performance. In his most famous book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Goffman called...
A museum of self
The Metropolitan Museum only showcases ten percent of its owned pieces at any given time. The rest of the art is stored somewhere else waiting...
RIP Evelyn Berezin, creator of the first word processor
We take the word processor for granted but fifty years ago it didn’t even exist. That is, until Evelyn Berezin came along and produced the...
People pot pie 😝
This video of human face pies is a nightmare. The teeth and pies with hair may be the scariest of the lot, while the fact...
‘To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society’
“To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.” — Man Ray, Self-Portrait...
Go inside the apartment of graphic communicator George Lois
Renowned graphic communicator George Lois takes us on a tour of his apartment. Located in Greenwich Village, what he calls “the best part of Manhattan,”...
Stephen King lists his top 10 favorite books of all-time
To celebrate the launch of Stephen King’s novel The Outsider in March 2018, Goodreads asked Stephen King to list out his top 10 favorite books of all...