David Perell
@david_perell
"The Writing Guy" | Christian | Host: How I Write Podcast | I tweet about writing, AI, and creativity | My writing: http://perell.com
Ted Gioia thinks our culture is stagnant. Hollywood's out of creative ideas, people don't trust the media, social media makes us addicted to distraction, and people don't read hard books like they used to. Timestamps: 2:30 The age of minimalism 8:45 Our crisis of trust 25:30…
AI-driven writing may not be beautiful, but it is quite clear. Why is that? Steven Pinker has a theory: We know from the world of visual beauty that a composite image is often prettier than the average. For example, if you morph a bunch of faces together from a high school…
I'm hiring a part-time YouTube title / thumbnail designer. You'll be responsible for the packaging of my YouTube videos and helping me with overall channel strategy. You must be obsessed with YouTube (like absolutely obsessed)... the kind of person who dreams about CTR and…
One reason why so many people despair is because we’ve removed beauty from public life. We could have beautiful stations, beautiful trains. We could make this world so lovely.
I hate how old train stations were cathedrals to prosperity and airports now are just the dingy bus stations of the sky
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.” — G. K. Chesterton
Wife took 3yo son to a magic show at the library. The magician started by saying that magic isn't real. Before telling me about the tricks, my son gave me the same preface. What? How sad. Perhaps the problem is not screens so much as the disenchantment of the world by adults.
Everyone working in a STEM field should read this - ‘writing is thinking’ nature.com/articles/s4422…
Went to The Met Museum on Friday night. Long line for tickets. Packed galleries. Artists sketching. Lots of young people, many of them dressed up. Almost all the art galleries I visit are like this. Maybe people want an escape from the digital world; maybe people are starving…
All around the West, people are feeling like their culture is dying. I was talking to an English guy a few weeks ago, who said: "You know why we love Wimbledon so much? Because it's the final remnant of an England that's just about dead now."