flâneur

Arsalaan Alam

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  • His mind teemed with “nothing but details, almost contiguous details,” too crowded for rest. At night, he would lie in bed, tormented by his knowledge of “every crevice and every molding of the various houses which surrounded him.” His memory was like a “garbage disposal,” overflowing with images and sensations and dreams that he could neither sort through nor make sense of.
    The persistence of memory - by Ashley Zhang
  • Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
    Curius / Onboarding
  • Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat
    Curius / Onboarding