Here’s a very incomplete list of people whose work I’ve found inspirational. If your taste is similar to mine, maybe you’ll get some inspiration from their work too.
Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
Hi, I'm David Perell.
I write, host a podcast, and run a writing school called Write of Passage.
50 Ideas That Changed My Life - David Perell
David shares 50 ideas that changed his life. Read here.
The best writing advice I’ve ever read comes from Robert Frost.
I write prose, not poetry, but the most helpful piece of advice I’ve ever read was written by a poet: Robert Frost, who was born 147 years ago today. In the second, expanded edition of his Co…
Work is a cult, here's how to escape
Indie Thinkers
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William Blake: the scourge of the tyrants
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Visit the Doug Engelbart Institute to explore his remarkable legacy and all it inspires (official site)
Toward a durable writing stack – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider
I have benefited over the years from others who have documented their writing setups, and so I feel some obligation to pay the favor forward by doing so with my own. The stack I’ll describe here is one I’ve been iterating on for about twenty years, starting from when I began discovering the pleasures of plain-text writing. Every aspect of it has changed over that period, but the some basic goals and flows have been with me through the writing of my college thesis, five books, and hundreds of articles. I am quite happy with where I am, and others might benefit from what I’ve come up with.
Reading philosophy for the examples
Philosophy books often have really good examples. Here are a few of my favourites.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Interesting Triad and an incredibly Complex Book
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10 Street Photographers EVERY Photographer MUST Know
I dropped by Edinburgh for a workshop on 'rewilding the web', with participation from philosophers, technologists, ecologists, architects, mathematicians, authors and landscape planners. anil.recoil.org/notes/rewilding-the-web-repor… @kathrynnave.eurosky.social @mariafarrell.eurosky.social @robin.berjon.com 🌎
Rewilding the Web: my workshop report from Edinburgh
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