Full Days and the Long Walk - Craig Modhttps://craigmod.com/ridgeline/217/
Craig Mod is an inspiration on various topics including fullness, walking, focusing on what's important by removing outside and inside distractions. That's a goal of mine but the road is still long
"The modern smartphone, laden with the corporate ecosystem pulsing underneath its screen, robs us of this feeling, conspires to keep us from “true” fullness. The swiping, the news cycles, the screaming, the idiocy — if anything destroys a muse, it’s this. If anything keeps you locked into a fetid loop of looking, looking, and looking once more at the train wreck, it’s this. I find it impossible to feel fullness, even in the slightest, after having spent just a bit of a day in the thralls of the algorithms.
The smartphone eradicates “space” in the mind."
Remove the distractions from your phone, put it as far as possible from you when you want to be present
And from David Foster Wallace (which I need to learn more about because I don't know him)
"Or, I don’t know about you, I’m gonna have to leave the planet. ‘Cause the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. Which is all right. In low doses, right? But if that’s the basic main staple of your diet, you’re gonna die. In a meaningful way, you’re going to die.""
About craft and art and why social media don't help you make true art
"It’s impossible to be “authentic” (to maintain some kind of “core integrity”) or to access anything resembling “true creativity” when plugged into social media."
"Does it get you to “create” things? Sure, but within the bland confines of what the algorithm thinks you should create, what the algorithm “knows” will drive engagement."
And from Moonbound author (also writing a great newsletter) :
"Art is fused with craft; craft is made of practice; and all of it is sort of stretched across the armature of genre. Creative work begins with an impulse for WORK, the kind of thing you want to spend your time doing, to which narrative and emotional material is quickly added."
And quoting on a similar topic of dopamine from this article
Nor can I so neatly separate the gooners as a whole from the rest of us. Think about it for a second: What are these gooners actually doing? Wasting hours each day consuming short-form video content. Chasing intensities of sensation across platforms. Parasocially fixating on microcelebrities who want their money. Broadcasting their love for those microcelebrities in public forums. Conducting bizarre self-experiments because someone on the internet told them to.