figments

Thoughts, visuals & other figments of imagination I come across with (mostly) online.

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‘Why don’t you guys write better roles for women? In fact, why don’t you just write a role for men and then let me play it?’

Frances McDormand via - NYT

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All I see is pixels

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Enough seems like a radical idea in a world that is conditioned to more. The concept of sufficiency runs contrary to so many values the Western world has ingrained in us. Our autopilot strives for bigger, better, more.

A recent issue of must-read-newsletter Dense Discovery.

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Moonshot thinking = Huge Problem x Breakthrough Technology x  Radical Solution

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“How nice it would be to die swimming toward the sun” - Le Cabanon by Le Corbusier

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Yes, but why? Zanele Muholi

Bite-size guides to brilliant artists by WePresent and Tate

Zanele Muholi via WePresent

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Snow scene by Alex Katz

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Josephus Melchior Thimister

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The latest Tech & Desing Issue by @NYTimes - equal parts of tech news and compelling user experience across devices.

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David Hockney’s “Sur la Terrasse,” painted in 1971, was rediscovered - via @NYTimes

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How the Silicon Valley positivity machine runs. For venture capitalists, Twitter is a place to sell. It’s a place to talk up portfolio companies. It’s a place to perform the industry pastime of “thought leading.” Venture capitalists do not think of themselves this way, of course.

Want to Do Business in Silicon Valley? Better Act Nice

What happened when a venture capitalist told the truth about a Mark Zuckerberg-backed start-up.

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Robert Frank - 1949

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Jia Tolentino on Life With the Internet

Tolentino talks about “Trick Mirror,” and John Taliaferro discusses “Grinnell,” his biography of a pioneering conservationist.

“I’ve come of age as a writer in a time where understanding something doesn’t necessarily lead to you being able to do anything about that thing,” she says. “The internet gives us this feeling of being able to know everything about anything, but often feeling like we’re able to do less and less every day. Just the question of ‘What is the use of understanding something?’ is this meta question hovering in my mind.” - Jia Tolentino via @NYTimes

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Opinion | Do You Have to Be a Jerk to Be Great?

Navigating the tension between work and relationships.

I was reading about how rich the pluralistic life is, and how stifling a homogeneous life is. And I was realizing that while we’re learning to preach gospel of openness and diversity, we’re mostly not living it. In the realm of public life, many live as monads, within the small circles of one specialty, one code, no greatness.

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Robert Mapplethorpe

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