"I'm not looking for something in particular - I want to find something I didn't know I was looking for. I want new ideas, new art, interesting people, new perspectives, this is the bigger promise of the internet - it's not just that it's a more convenient way for companies to be accessible online." - Artists Revolt Against Social Media; The Deep Life by Cal Newport

Jack Newton

[on content distributer trust model]: "it's slow, there's no attention manipulation, so if you're not really producing something original or interesting that people really like, there's no pretending like there's a 1000 people who care what you're doing like Tik Tok can do for you - so it can be frustrating, like I want to people to be interested in what I'm doing but its not and you have to deal with that. And even as a consumer of information it's more work. - This way of consuming content is not good for in the moment distraction." - Artists Revolt Against Social Media: The Deep Life by Cal Newport

Michella Bredahl

Liam MacRae

"Behind the six-figure salaries are people who’ve never used a knife or cared for a plant. They can afford the things they want and hire the people they need but that’s about it. Without money, they’re shallow. With it, they’re pretentious." - Harsh Patel; Who Are You Outside Your Job?

"Soho House, Sweetgreen, Equinox, Two Hands, and Sunlife Organics — Unlike, say, McDonald’s, these businesses represent a certain kind of lifestyle: that of the millennial yuppie striver, who balances their taste for amenities with a desire to optimize everything, from food to socializing, for health and efficiency." - Chris Black; The America That Runs on Sweetgreen

"Sometimes, life is so slow, and sometimes, it is too fast - With the freedom of choice and the gift of abundance, we have the privilege to decide if we want to indulge in the momentary rushes of life or the peacefulness it offers. But we get stuck in the middle because we want a little bit of both. We’re greedy little suckers, no? - We’re all busy chasing skills that earn money but not the ones that make life self-fulfilling and sustainable." - Harsh Patel; Who Are You Outside Your Job?

"It’s for this reason that so many novels today about “male vulnerability” all rehash the same tired tropes. Men can write about vulnerability as long as it is masked as a comment on masculinity or class or society or trauma or identity. These are the ways we have made male vulnerability palatable." Barry Pierce - Can we please have more young male novelists in 2023?

"I’m sure you’ve seen some of the videos - the one with the guy sitting in his self-driving Tesla Cybertruck with the headset on, flailing his hands around the steering wheel to operate his new toy from inside his slightly less-new toy." Chris Black; Please, not another screen