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Issue 14: sleepers, beginner’s mind, correspondence, needles
‘In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.’
Issue 13: Bukowski, Knox, and 'authorities'
'How can Proust change your life? Try reading him, for a start.'
Issue 12: various books, being argumentative, caffeine
'Smug, rich and inert, we fall below the means test for pity.'
Issue 11: does reading have an empathy problem?
It’s been theorised at many points, that art – and in particular, reading fiction – can help to develop increased empathy.
Issue 10: can we still read?
Previously, the bevy of bright-screened distractions which Silicon Valley cooked up have carried only the ‘mere’ risk of distraction. However, LLM usage presents something qualitatively different.