✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

Diversifying Inputs

gracekasten.xyz · 588 words · saved by 1 readers

I’ve had a hard time writing these posts lately. It’s not that I haven’t been able to write at all, in fact I have several finished pieces in my drafts folder (on AI, network states, SF), I just don’t feel satisfied with the matter and form. They don’t feel natural – my thoughts aren’t coming together in the ways I expect and the ideas flow slower and forced. It hit me yesterday, when I was listening to an especially good podcast (this one to be exact) and my mind started running in a way that it hasn’t in several weeks. I hadn’t myself truly noticed this underperformance until the feeling of quick idea flow was so intensely palpable. In introducing a new information input, my capacity to connect concepts, and thus create new ones, expanded noticeably. I think I’ve lacked a diversity / variety of new inputs recently which has restricted my ability to freely generate new ideas. Not all inputs are the same. It is easy to think that sheer volume of content is enough – and we tend to struc

Diversifying Inputs March 26, 2023 March 26, 2023 Diversifying Inputs grace@pacecapital.com grace@pacecapital.com Archive Archive UV I’ve had a hard time writing these posts lately. It’s not that I haven’t been able to write at all, in fact I have several finished pieces in my drafts folder (on AI, network states, SF), I just don’t feel satisfied with the matter and form. They don’t feel natural – my thoughts aren’t coming together in the ways I expect and the ideas flow slower and forced. It hit me yesterday, when I was listening to an especially good podcast ( this one to be exact) and my mi

Explore this link on the map →

related reading