The newness of depth - by Henrik Karlsson

I have a note where I paste all the darlings I kill, the passages I cut from essays because they do not support the wholeness. Looking at the darling graveyard today, I saw that it was 7,608 words long, so I’m doing a spring cleaning and will exhume some cadavers to your inbox instead. There will be fragments about identities and affordances; finding friends and books; learning to appreciate the depth of my everyday life; and the art of writing and reading essays. At the end, there is also a link list of good things I’ve read recently. An identity is not just something you are obliged to have so that others know how to think about you. It is also a way to create what design theorists call affordances. Affordances are invitations for action. A chair affords sitting. A button affords pushing. Identities provide affordances like this, too. When I worked at my last job, which was as a coordinator at a gallery, the identity “coordinator” gave me the affordance to do things that I would feel

I have a note where I paste all the darlings I kill, the passages I cut from essays because they do not support the wholeness. Looking at the darling graveyard today, I saw that it was 7,608 words long, so I’m doing a spring cleaning and will exhume some cadavers to your inbox instead. There will be fragments about identities and affordances; finding friends and books; learning to appreciate the depth of my everyday life; and the art of writing and reading essays. At the end, there is also a link list of good things I’ve read recently. An identity is not just something you are obliged to have