Notes

funny that since ~sophomore year there has always been a pair of swimming earbuds in my shopping cart that i’ve never checked out. at first i couldn’t afford one and the selection was narrow. now i can and there are plenty, but i’ve come to paying exactly for the mandatory void of input (and the resulting whim) in the pool and hesitate to trade it for 1h of podcasts (which i can’t easily skip forward underwater if one turns out to be boring) or music (which i can and do sing in my head anyway)

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1971/10/21/martin-heidegger-at-eighty/

Retrievals 出 S2 了 听一半脑壳疼系列+1 http://t.cn/A6kqsrJc

sometimes my unwillingness to chat works like, if i can identify the restaurant in a photo by cross-checking the color of the tablecloth against review sites why bother asking? ditto seeking social clues and schedules in read receipts and timestamps

https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/the-self-that-never-was

funny how our family quarrels have become increasingly polite and cautious and meta over the years as both sides have learned to de-escalate with qualifiers and hypotheses e.g. i was like, not to dismiss your point but statistically something something no i’m not talking nonsense see the pdf i’m sending you. and they were like uh sure to avoid making you defensive let’s imagine a scenario where an unrelated individual blah blah blah

timely https://harpers.org/archive/2025/07/shadow-of-a-doubt-ocd-andrew-kay/ https://yalereview.org/article/garth-greenwell-miranda-july

video et taceo

https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1540-6385.00129

https://psyche.co/stories-of-change/how-i-became-a-psychoanalyst-by-losing-my-keys

https://archive.is/JCJjY

试下来 kindle 和 play books 现在都不好拆 DRM 了，要自己留 epub 只能从 kobo 买了

my primary failure mode: spending hours piecing together 10 justifications for x, only to decide against x

见到过最说人话的一版 Symposium https://www.pauldrybooks.com/products/platos-symposium-and-phaedrus

中式效率有时候也是服

“Things in nature merely grow. There is no suicidal or angry rose, there is no depressed or rebellious lily. […] A garden is a placeholder. Flowers are placeholders.”

网上买了盒 aesop 到货看了一眼扔回去退了 什么都仿对了就是把 helvetica 用成了 arial 你们老中做假货真的总在字体上翻车

nothing went as planned even the unplanned didn’t go unplanned as planned

“material to the functioning of hk as an international financial centre”

눈_눈

https://archive.is/kKZLz

goat https://deadline.com/2025/05/read-severance-season-2-finale-script-dan-erickson-1236382894/

number 6 版劳斯莱斯能循环放一百遍

Do you know how entrepreneurs and psychologists write? It’s 99 percent packing peanuts, and they get paid for it. There’s something almost artful about it.

The blurbs on mainstream releases, mostly by other authors and journalists of traditional institutions, create the impression that readers of said books experience nirvana on every page. They usually don’t.

好 mean，喜欢 https://www.metropolitanreview.org/p/kill-the-editor

as a search addict i’m always stunned to find how unwilling ppl can be to do even a trivial amount of fact-checking before talking bullshit