flâneur

Shagun Maheshwari

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on the atlas — 19

highlights — 15

  • the turbines that convert it into power are hard to make, hard to ramp, and largely already spoken for.
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  • 15 acres of solar are required per MW of DC AI load
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  • Perhaps there’s a brief window in a person’s life where he has the intelligence, curiosity, and freedom of youth but also the skills and knowledge of age.
    The mystery of the miracle year
  • I still think that repetition that will save us when all else turns to dust.
    bookbear express
  • After all, when I say that I know something is worth pursuing, I’m really just talking about instinct and intuition.
    bookbear express
  • and yet some days I’m like, jesus, I really don’t want to. I don’t know where this is going and I don’t know if it’s any good. But then we return to the point above: if I really claim to love writing, I have to stay meaningfully engaged with it. I have to choose to do one small thing again and again, instead of the thousands of other things I could be doing.
    bookbear express
  • One of my favorite lines about writing is Isabel Allende’s“Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.” Which I read as: prioritize engagement over mood, convenience, everything.
    bookbear express
  • But I think real love involves full acceptance of someone or something through its entire lifecycle.
    bookbear express
  • When I’m overwhelmed by the range of possibilities, I try to remember that all I really have to do is to commit to one thing. You can get a million small things wrong, but as long as you get one meaningful thing right, you’ll be okay. But getting something right means staying engaged with it again and again over a long period of time.
    bookbear express
  • Of course my observations will be flawed—all individual perspectives are partial and distorted—but the only way I can gain autonomy is to write from my incomplete point of view. Put like that, autonomy comes from trust in the self, in subjective vision. It’s a rejection that the answer lies in any narrative framework
    bookbear express
  • To write in a real voice, an alive voice, I have to trust my own eyes, what I see before I start to think.
    bookbear express
  • I always make the mistake, though, in thinking that I'm going to read my way to the answer. It’s only through my habitual disappointment with the philosophers that I am reminded that there are other experiences that have to happen in order for us to really know anything.
    bookbear express
  • Creativity is inherently anti-authoritarian. As in: to be successfully creative, you have to shed the part of yourself that desperately wants reassurance. It’s only then that you can escape cliche and escape paradigmatic thinking.
    bookbear express
  • Some people have a lot farther to go from where they begin to get where they want to be—a long way up the mountain, and that is how it has been for me. I don’t feel I am getting older; I feel I am getting closer.
    bookbear express
  • To me that means that I could tell you one thing that contains everything, and I could tell you everything and it could still mean nothing.
    on writing more - by Ava - bookbear express