In the realm of sports talk, kindness is unrelatable; it’s alien, even. What’s relatable is irrationally caring for your team and irrationally hating its rivals—not pandering by saying that you happen to like all of the teams in key Rust Belt swing states.
~ Nathaniel Frum via The Atlantic
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Our republic has died and been reborn again more than once in America’s history. America has had multiple “foundings.” Perhaps we are on the verge of another rebirth of the American republic, another chapter in America’s continual reinvention of itself. I hope so.
~ Dean Ball via Hyperdimensional
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Life in the Instagram bubble requires a constant calibration of how it will be viewed from outside.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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Part of believing in capitalism is you don’t have to feel guilty
~ David Sacks via The Atlantic
The culture war is burning too hot for a class war to snuff it out anytime soon.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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Some writers work like sculptors: they produce something fully chiseled that could stand forever. Novelists tend to be like that. Rather than being a sculptor, I see myself as being a musician. After a performance, no matter how it goes, the musician’s task is to start practicing for the next one.
~ Dan Wang via his 2025 letter
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Research on apocalyptic belief suggests that mood is more predictive than party affiliation or income in how people respond to big risks. Political identity explains surprisingly little. What matters is whether you think capable humans are still in control, how close you feel to the edge, and whether some part of you suspects the crash might actually be an improvement.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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Millions of artist create; only a few thousands are discussed or accepted by the spectator and many less again are consecrated by posterity.
~ Marcel Duchamp
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I’d probably rather live in a greedy country where people don’t share than in an envious country where people are stealing from each other.
~ David Sacks via The Atlantic
When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.
~ James Gleick
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