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With more education, more and more people want to be published. More want to be published than want to read. “I need you to hear me, more than I need to hear you.” […] Not even poets want to read poetry, unless they are required to do so in order to see their own work published.
So Many Books
Gabriel Zaid and Natasha Wimmer
As cameras make more and more creative choices on your behalf, we think the photographer should retain the agency to cast aside algorithms and do their own thing. Just as a photographer expresses themselves in their choice of lens, exposure settings, and film stock, Halide now lets you choose the process that works for you.
Process Zero: The Anti-Intelligent Camera
Ben Sandofsky
It is not an accident that great athletes are often called “naturals,” because they can, in performance, be totally present: they can proceed on instinct and muscle-memory and autonomic will such that agent and action are one. Great athletes can do this even—and, for the truly great ones like Borg and Bird and Nicklaus and Jordan and Austin, *especially*—under wilting pressure and scrutiny. They can withstand forces of distraction that would break a mind prone to self-conscious fear in two.
String Theory
David Foster Wallace
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