by Brian on 01-21-2009
in art
This may or may not be interesting to anyone (I’m assuming it’s not) but I feel like I need to write this to get a more coherent sense of the influences that shaped my thinking. Or maybe that’s not it — I don’t really know why I feel like I need to write this, I just [...]
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alfred north whitehead,
autobibliography,
bibliography,
business books,
confucianism,
darwin's dangerous idea,
discipline,
eupsychian management,
friedrich nietzsche,
jacques barzun,
jose ortega y gasset,
peter drucker,
plato,
political theory,
positive psychology,
pragmatism,
reading,
richard rorty,
self-becoming,
self-creation,
william james,
writing
After years failing to get engaged with any fiction, it was finally a TV series — The Wire — that made me enthusiastic enough about character and narrative to pick up a novel and actually read it all the way through. Then the natural author to go to was Richard Price, who wrote a handful of Wire episodes, and [...]
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autotelesis,
books,
fiction,
lush life,
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richard price,
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will to relevance
[Originally written in March, 2007... It was the first complete & coherent thing I wrote outside of school. It's far from well-written, but the background behind everything I do is in here... somewhere (it demonstrates more than it articulates).] Contents: i. A Résumé, a story about itself, a creative consummation… ii. Common points of reference / [...]
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adventure,
autobibliography,
change,
discipline,
education,
freedom,
generativity,
leadership,
love of learning,
meaning,
motivation,
organization,
progress,
responsibility,
self-becoming
