Quoting Robin Sloan, Summer Wind, 2023

there is power and leverage in not being interesting in the stuff everybody else is interested in — the stuff other people insist is urgent.

Map the regions of your own affinity and interest, across all relevant dimensions: intellectual, aesthetic, moral. The rest, you can ignore freely. Ignore strenuously!

— Robin Sloan, Summer Wind, 2023

8:16pm on October 3, 2024 from Turkey.


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