Hi,
Happy Friday! Here’s a list of 10 neat things.
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Art: Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on why a capacity for boredom is essential for a full life
“In boredom, we can also say, there are two assumptions, two impossible options: there is something I desire, and there is nothing I desire. But which of the two assumptions, or beliefs, is disavowed is always ambiguous, and this ambiguity accounts, I think, for the curious paralysis of boredom… In boredom there is the lure of a possible object of desire, and the lure of the escape from desire, of its meaninglessness.”
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Film: Denis Villeneuve picks a favorite shot from his most iconic movies - he likes the intimate scenes and hands.
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Music: Sigur Rós sings in a mixture of Icelandic and Hopelandic.
“Vonlenska (English: Hopelandic) differs from both natural and constructed languages used for human communication. It consists of strings of meaningless syllables containing non-lexical vocables and phonemes. There is no grammatical relation between or among syllables, nor are they accompanied by clearly defined word boundaries. Vonlenska emphasizes the phonological and emotive qualities of human vocalizations, and it uses the melodic and rhythmic elements of singing without the conceptual content of language.”
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Culture: The Montauk Project, a conspiracy theory that alleges there were a series of USA government projects conducted for the purpose of developing psychological warfare techniques and exotic research including time travel. The TV series Stranger Things was inspired by the Montauk Project, and at one time Montauk was used as it’s working title.
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UX: AI & UX - A reality check with Jakob Nielsen - good. Read more AI for UX
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AI: Watch Three short films created using Sora, OpenAI’s new text-to-video generator - neat.
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Productivity: Find your play personality to “unlock a key component to creating more joy and delight in your life”. I’m a director and collector first (hence this newsletter) and kinesthetic second (I dance, etc.). More suggested activities here.
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Cute: “my stomach has a crush on food tho” - Miles update. Also, Jack B has been demoted to one of three loves :(
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Spirituality: - What is Claircognizance? Do you ever feel like you “just know” things? Of all the forms of knowing – clairvoyance, clairsentience, etc. claircognizance is arguably the least sexy and hardest to discern. Personally, I swing between is this intuitive or just pattern recognition? but then science and logic is also magical.
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Funny: oof American politics, but this made my day ha :)
