My buddy Austin Kleon tried to ask a question about “merch” but for once autocorrect imposed the right question: “What do people use for mercy these days?”
Finished reading: The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt. Impressive in many ways and often delightful, but essentially it’s The Further Adventures of the Glass Family. If you had always hoped that Salinger would in his hermetic withdrawal write a big sprawling ambitious 500-page novel, well, here it is. I don’t mean that as either a compliment or an insult. 📚
Riccardo Mori: “I actually quite like most of what Apple is doing with the Mac, hardware-wise. The problem is I just can’t stand the software anymore.” I’m close to this point. It’s werid to see Apple’s hardware ascending great heights while the software tumbles into incoherence.
Re: this essay on accelerated and decelerated landscapes, I wonder if we can think similarly about media landscapes. Maybe what we need is not the distinction between “fast” and “slow” media but rather an ethic of deceleration – a movement rather than a binary switch.
Brad East’s rules for reviewing and being reviewed, are excellent, but the very first rule for reviewing should be: Don’t review a book unless you have actually read it. This rule is broken quite often, I’m sorry to say.
Currently reading: The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt 📚
Maybe this is just an oddity of my brain, but I find the Systems Settings app in Ventura incomprehensible. Whenever I have to use it I go straight to the search bar.
