“Until you remove the noise, you’re going to miss a lot of signal.”
Why blogging may be (once again) the best place to go to meet/create/sustain your tribe. Seth Godin, Ranking Signal to Noise.
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I Learned to Write by Writing
“I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.”
Neil Gaiman, keynote address at University of the Arts, May 2012. Video and transcript.
Keep Your Eyes Open
People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you’re going to see just about all that you can handle.
Auggie Wren, “Smoke” (1995)
Put Them in a Box
I watched Waiting for Superman recently.
So many loaded terms. “Success.” “Failure.” “Achievement.” “Learning.” So many experts who know what’s best. So many devils. So many details.
It’s an exasperating film, full of unfounded assumptions, not least of which being the assumption that putting kids in a box is the starting point for all learning.
It Takes that Long to Break a Child’s Will
Even when I was young it seemed to me that most classroom material could be presented and assimilated in four, maybe five, years… I’ve since come to understand the reason school lasts thirteen years. It takes that long to sufficiently break a child’s will. It is not easy to disconnect children’s wills, to disconnect them from their own experiences of the world in preparation for the lives of painful employment they will have to endure. Less time wouldn’t do it, and in fact, those who are especially slow go to college. For the exceedingly obstinate child there is graduate school.
Derrick Jensen, A Language Older Than Words
