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Collected quotes, 5 of n
We’ve been losing too many good people this year. Within a little more than a week of each other, bell hooks and Joan Didion both passed away — staggering losses in a time that’s already taken far too much. Both of these writers have shaped so much of my perspective on the world, so I…
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Collected quotes, 3 of n
Geometry has nothing to do with it. It’s all about finding perfection, and perfection can’t be found in something as rigid as geometry. You have to find it elsewhere, in between the lines. Agnes Martin. as quoted in this newsletter I have had to learn how to manage — to be a functioning person while…
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Not a Gamer: Tiny Echo
In Tiny Echo, you play as a one-eyed entity wandering the bowels of a blighted land, delivering mail to spirits.
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Not A Gamer: missed messages
Indie game developer Angela He’s missed messages sets you up to fail, and that’s a good thing.
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Rest
The relentless hustle of startup culture, or the crunch of game development, or whatever synonym other tech-adjacent industries like to use for the endless grind of work, all rest on the metaphor of the worker as a single-minded machine.
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“There are always other places.”
In the penultimate episode of the Korean drama Hotel del Luna, there’s a scene where the undying owner of the hotel, Jang Man-wol, looks back on her portraits from the hotel’s different eras. There are no photos of any of her staff then. Koo Chan-sung, the current manager, tells her she should have taken some…
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