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AI Prophet Margaret Boden on the Three Elements of Creativity – The Marginalian
3 weeks ago
AI Prophet Margaret Boden on the Three Elements of Creativity – The Marginalian
“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do [only] whatever we know how to order…
What Makes a Great Poem, What Makes a Great Storyteller, and What Makes Great Person – The Marginalian
4 weeks ago
What Makes a Great Poem, What Makes a Great Storyteller, and What Makes Great Person – The Marginalian
I once asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a total solar eclipse in the style of Walt Whitman. It…
Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance – The Marginalian
4 weeks ago
Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance – The Marginalian
One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in…
Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness – The Marginalian
4 weeks ago
Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness – The Marginalian
“The high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of living,…
The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life – The Marginalian
4 weeks ago
The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life – The Marginalian
“A person’s identity,” Amin Maalouf wrote as he contemplated what he so poetically called the genes of the soul, “is…
10 Quotes About Minimalism (things I tell myself when I want to simplify life)
4 weeks ago
10 Quotes About Minimalism (things I tell myself when I want to simplify life)
10 Quotes About Minimalism (things I tell myself when I want to simplify life) – Be More with Less
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10 Words from Around the World for Complex and Difficult Emotions – The Marginalian
4 weeks ago
10 Words from Around the World for Complex and Difficult Emotions – The Marginalian
Language is the chalice we lift to our lips to taste our own experience — a vessel that constrains what…
The Moomin Strategy for Living with Uncertainty – The Marginalian
4 weeks ago
The Moomin Strategy for Living with Uncertainty – The Marginalian
Tove Jansson (August 9, 1914–June 27, 2001) is among the most imaginative, important, and influential children’s book creators of all…
Oliver Sacks on Neurocognitive Pillar of What Makes Us Who We Are – The Marginalian
4 weeks ago
Oliver Sacks on Neurocognitive Pillar of What Makes Us Who We Are – The Marginalian
“A person’s identity,” Amin Maalouf wrote in his brilliant treatise on personhood, “is like a pattern drawn on a tightly…
Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being – The Marginalian
4 weeks ago
Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being – The Marginalian
When the twenty-two-year-old Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932–February 11, 1963) wrote to her mother one bleak January day, both women…