It all started with an essay by Elizabeth Bachner on the nature of genius and the mysticism of art. She points out that “Genius is not, etymologically speaking, a trait, like prettiness or stupidity or discretion. Genii, in the Roman tradition, are spirits that enter a man’s body at his birth and leave at his [...]
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Posted: October 23, Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment If you ever chance to spend a little time around a substance-recovery halfway facility like Enfield MA’s state-funded Ennet House, you will encounter many exotic new facts. That you do not have to like a person to learn from him/her/it. That loneliness is not a function [...]
Notes on The Making of an Expert, by K. Anders Ericsson, Michael J. Prietula, and Edward T. Cokely. Harvard Business Review, July/August 2007 All the superb performers [benjamin Bloom] investigated had practiced intensively, had studied with devoted teachers, and had been supported enthusiastically by their families though their developing years. 1. Intensive, deliberate practice2. Devoted [...]
A guide for the emerging comics artist or how to behave on the Internet w/r/t social media. Don’t take your readership for granted Small readership defined: If your Twitter and Facebook followers could easily fit inside a college auditorium, that’s a small readership. If this describes your audience, you have time to respond to any [...]
Over at dynamanga.net, Dirk Tiede has been working on a series of master studies as an exercise to sharpen his drawing skills. Being inspired by the idea, I decided I would shamelessly copy it. Master studies. Once again I found myself enthusiastically doing things that I had half-assed or blown off completely in college (when [...]
Shawn Blanc brings up something that’s been bothering me for the past few years: consuming content. We say “consuming content” as a way to sum up the act of reading, listening, viewing, and other ways of taking in various forms of media and entertainment. We keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what [...]
It looks like page 97 isn’t appearing in the feed for some reason. So here it is. Page 98 is coming in about an hour, what an embarrassment of riches! edit: It looks like the Atom feed is working fine, but not RSS2. I’m working on the problem. edit2: It’s all fixed.
It started out, appropriately enough, with a post on Twitter. @GreatestQuotes posted “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.” attributing the quote to Niccolò Machiavelli. The metaphysical examination of one’s inner life is a bit outside of Machiavelli’s purview, so it raised my suspicions. Hunting down fake quotes is [...]
“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it” Not as pernicious as the overthrowing the status quo false quotation I discussed earlier, this one does seem to have some staying power as a fake Machiavelli. The fact that it’s pretty blatantly not Machiavelli’s style or [...]