Anthology, Aphantasia, Ansel Adams, etc.
In which soon there will be turkey for me and turkey for you.
šø Hello!
šŗ My buddy Migs was on Kimmel.
š§ (42/50) Saturday Looks Good to Me, Every Night: Pure nostalgia. Detroit garage that blends lo-fi twee with Motown undertones and heartfelt melodies into a dreamy, timeless experience. The songs feel both familiar and sincere, creating an emotional, quietly uplifting record that lingers long after it ends.
š Friendly reminder: Anthology drops Wednesday on Disney+. I said it before and Iāll say it again: I would probably watch Beatles documentaries every Thanksgiving weekend for the rest of my life.
š„ Why movies no longer look or feel real.
šø These Ansel Adams photographs expose the rigors of Life in Japanese internment camps during WWII.
š¼ļø Grandma Moses began painting in her 70s. She became an icon.
š Meet the aphantasics, āthose who canāt see mental images.ā
š¾ Are we in a digital dark age? On those that are trying to rescue knowledge from old floppy discs.
ā” But also, maybe not everything needs to preserved. JA Westenberg on why they erased 10,000 Notes, 7 years of ideas, every thought theyād attempted to save, explaining that the promise of capturing everything ended up freezing thinking and replacing curiosity with bookkeeping. The article asserts that knowledgeāmanagement systems can trap us in deferral: we record reflect, file instead of live. Do less, deleting more, and trust what matters will float back to the surface.
š§© And remember:
āPreparing to do the thing isnāt doing the thing.
Scheduling time to do the thing isnāt doing the thing.
Making a to-do list for the thing isnāt doing the thing.
Telling people youāre going to do the thing isnāt doing the thing.
Messaging friends who may or may not be doing the thing isnāt doing the thing.
Writing a banger tweet about how youāre going to do the thing isnāt doing the thing.
Hating on yourself for not doing the thing isnāt doing the thing. Hating on other people who have done the thing isnāt doing the thing. Hating on the obstacles in the way of doing the thing isnāt doing the thing.
Fantasizing about all of the adoration youāll receive once you do the thing isnāt doing the thing.
Reading about how to do the thing isnāt doing the thing. Reading about how other people did the thing isnāt doing the thing. Reading this essay isnāt doing the thing.
The only thing that is doing the thing is doing the thing.ā
āļø Keep the Hoping Machine running, and do the damn thing. Happy Thanksgiving.
Love,
Luke
