flâneur

Rachel Heo

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on the atlas — 14

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  • There's a question buried in that: what does it mean to keep practicing a craft you love when you suspect it's dying?
    Competence as Tragedy
  • while the world moves on without him.
    Competence as Tragedy
  • Patient, physical, present. The truck doesn't just replace the horse; it makes that way of being in the world unnecessary. You don't need to feel an engine the way you feel a horse beneath you.
    Competence as Tragedy
  • I'm deep into a career built around craft. Not just writing code, but writing code that's beautiful—readable, elegant, delivering value without sacrificing clarity.
    Competence as Tragedy
  • McCarthy doesn't mock him for this. That's what makes the book devastating. John Grady isn't a fool or a luddite. He's right that his way of being in the world is beautiful. He's right that something is being lost. He still can't stop it from disappearing.
    Competence as Tragedy
  • early as 10,000 years ago
    Domestic pigeon
  • Over time a population tends to homogenise and adopt a plumage that suits their environment, such as camouflaging against black asphalt, and birds that have distinct plumage patterns from flockmates are more often targeted by predators.
    Domestic pigeon
  • n the United States, some pigeon keepers illegally trap and kill hawks and falcons to protect their pigeons.
    Domestic pigeon
  • However, studies have shown that if magnetic disruption or clock changes disrupt these senses, the pigeon can still manage to get home. The variability in the effects of manipulations to these sense of the pigeons indicates that there is more than one cue on which navigation is based and that map sense appears to rely on a comparison of available cues.[72]
    Domestic pigeon
  • But your personal growth depends on your ability to handle big choices yourself and not to shirk them
    How Kierkegaard can help you cope with an existential crisis | Psyche Guides
  • ‘What I really need is to be clear about what I am to do, not what I must know … the thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.’
    How Kierkegaard can help you cope with an existential crisis | Psyche Guides
  • a society that overemphasises objectivity and ‘results’ (profits, productivity, outcomes, efficiency) at the expense of personal, passionate, subjective human experiences.
    How Kierkegaard can help you cope with an existential crisis | Psyche Guides
  • living without passion amounts to not existing at all
    How Kierkegaard can help you cope with an existential crisis | Psyche Guides
  • The great books that explore the abyss of the human soul (the mediocre ones never go there) now come with ‘trigger warnings’. Inhaling serious literature is apparently as dangerous as smoking. Granted, this sugarcoating industry has turned life in modern society into a highly artificial affair and largely a mockery, but most people don’t seem to mind. For mindlessness is another important dimension of modern life.
    Learning to be a loser: a philosopher’s case for doing nothing | Psyche Ideas