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Ramanujanâs discoveries in math were astonishingly profound & wide-ranging, but his creative process is an enigma
Many results came to him in dreamsâyet his dreams have been almost completely ignored. Hereâs a stroll through what we know & might yet learn
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Excited to announce that @plymouthstreet has achieved over 100 O1 and EB1 US work visa approvals for extraordinary individuals to build here in America.
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I consider this a seminal text in these matters
kristinposehn.substack.com/pâŚ
H/t @artinnernet
You heal a dominant culture by forming a subculture of credible people, in the middle of it, who value something new, who reinforce and reward something that the dominant culture represses.
âRachel Naomi Reman
One evening in the 1810s, the German physician Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert hit the town with a wine-merchant friend.Â
After a few bottles of red his friend said, I'll publish your next book, what will it be about?Â
Without thinking Gotthilf blurted out, âA key to dreams.â
This was a bonkers setup given that Gotthilf was a physician, naturalist, and illustrator (check out one of his prints below), while his friend was a pro in the wine biz, not publishing.
âSo it will be,â said his friendâand he held them both to their word.Â
The next winter Gotthilf wrote âThe Symbolism of Dreams,â one of the most original Romantic-era works on dreams.
In his book, Gotthilf flips the script on dream interpretationâŚ
Dream language is of a higher order, he wrote. Itâs the âlanguage of our soul.â
So don't bother trying to interpret dreams according to the limited logic of your everyday mind. Instead, read your daily life like a dream.
And while you're at it, find yourself a friend so awesome they'll dare-publish your next wild book idea.
Thereâs a stage when youâre writing a book where it feels like it might kill you but I didnât know it was a literal problem
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If you really want to turbo your writing skills, donât just read. The trick is to interact with the text. Actually engage it in some way that suits you. Copy it out by hand, sing it in the shower, dissect it in your margin notes, rewrite it in your voice and perform it for your catâit doesnât even matter which method you choose
Whenever I take what I read to the next level and interact, some kind of secret compounding is triggered. I look back three months later and have to admit, weirdly my writing got better. We absorb the consciousness of text on another level when we go to the trouble of engaging it
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everything i have is because i once honored and celebrated someone else who had it
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Kristin's work is REALLY good.
If you really want to turbo your writing skills, donât just read. The trick is to interact with the text. Actually engage it in some way that suits you. Copy it out by hand, sing it in the shower, dissect it in your margin notes, rewrite it in your voice and perform it for your catâit doesnât even matter which method you choose
Whenever I take what I read to the next level and interact, some kind of secret compounding is triggered. I look back three months later and have to admit, weirdly my writing got better. We absorb the consciousness of text on another level when we go to the trouble of engaging it
If you really want to turbo your writing skills, donât just read. The trick is to interact with the text. Actually engage it in some way that suits you. Copy it out by hand, sing it in the shower, dissect it in your margin notes, rewrite it in your voice and perform it for your catâit doesnât even matter which method you choose
Whenever I take what I read to the next level and interact, some kind of secret compounding is triggered. I look back three months later and have to admit, weirdly my writing got better. We absorb the consciousness of text on another level when we go to the trouble of engaging it
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Worst realisations (ie least welcome) iâve had over the years:
- no one is coming to save me, nobody can
- there are potentially no limits to how bad i can make myself feel and if i choose that noone will be able to stop me
- people who love me are capable of being happy even while i am miserable, this doesnt mean they are mean or uncaring
- itâs up to me to give myself a life, and to feel connected in life
- ive been completely programmed to orient around any male in the room as a way to get power
- no amount of love from others will compensate for me not actively loving as a state (heart contraction) (deliberately not saying âloving myselfâ here as its a kind of slippery, vague, nonsensical phrase) - or in other words, self-loathing as a force can negate any amount of love from others / the cosmos despite the latter being infinite
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âMake art that shape-shifts and stings.â
Thinking of the 19th century French artist Grandville and his satirical carrots. His drawings were wildly surreal, yet so politically biting that he was persecuted by the monarchy. He broke from the conventions of realism, and tapped the uncanny non-rational order of dreams
The poet Baudelaire said, âHe frightens me. When I enter into his work, I feel a certain discomfort, like an apartment where disorder is systematically organized, where bizarre cornices rest on the floor, where paintings seem distorted by an optic lensâŚâ
As with so many artists, what we consider his best work now was also the least popular in his lifetime. The book for which heâs most remembered is âAnother Worldââan extravagant collection of satirical sci-fi illustrations. Check out an excerpt âThe Wanderings of a Cometâ below at right
The same qualities that triggered discomfort and fear in Baudelaire would later inspire the Surrealist movementâand generations of artists and writers that followed in his wake. If Grandville had dialed it back thereâd have been no new ground broken, no discovery
So, go too far. Make art that shape-shifts and stings. Torment your personal Baudelaire with a carrot, or a comet. The next generation wonât be able to look away
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LLMs have a huge blind spot:
Time
Asked to come up with a travel itinerary, they can't pace it appropriately.
Asked to play therapist, they forget that every session has a time limit.
Words exist outside of time,
But embodied intelligence is literally made out of time.
Thinking of the 19th century French artist Grandville and his satirical carrots. His drawings were wildly surreal, yet so politically biting that he was persecuted by the monarchy. He broke from the conventions of realism, and tapped the uncanny non-rational order of dreams
The poet Baudelaire said, âHe frightens me. When I enter into his work, I feel a certain discomfort, like an apartment where disorder is systematically organized, where bizarre cornices rest on the floor, where paintings seem distorted by an optic lensâŚâ
As with so many artists, what we consider his best work now was also the least popular in his lifetime. The book for which heâs most remembered is âAnother Worldââan extravagant collection of satirical sci-fi illustrations. Check out an excerpt âThe Wanderings of a Cometâ below at right
The same qualities that triggered discomfort and fear in Baudelaire would later inspire the Surrealist movementâand generations of artists and writers that followed in his wake. If Grandville had dialed it back thereâd have been no new ground broken, no discovery
So, go too far. Make art that shape-shifts and stings. Torment your personal Baudelaire with a carrot, or a comet. The next generation wonât be able to look away
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There's one extraordinary idea that holds the potential to meaningfully change the world.
Iâve been exploring it for nearly 10 years. I've spent the last few months compressing that research into a 20 minute presentation.
Here it is:
sapientcapital.com/insights/âŚ
In 1493 the 22-year-old artist Albrecht DĂźrer penned a selfie with (counting both front and back of his paper) seven of the dreamiest fluffiest pillows which even amazon ads cannot rival. Only fitting as he later became the first artist in the West known to paint a dream
