Books, Beats & Big Ideas
We are coming back from summer break strong. This week we’re stretching across worlds: baseball and pool halls, space stations and sci-fi, lofi beats and anime memories, and the challenge of reading for both work and joy.
We are coming back from summer break strong. This week we’re stretching across worlds: baseball and pool halls, space stations and sci-fi, lofi beats and anime memories, and the challenge of reading for both work and joy.
Weekly Edition - Art and Culture Newsletter - Thursday, February 12, 2026
On the impact of the highly improbable and how the Black Swan teaches us to be open to luck.
Yeats’ gyres now come faster and faster, and as each new era comes, we quickly forget the last one. Our minds cannot comprehend, our spinning top cannot hold. It is imploding in on itself.
I have come to the conclusion that most artists are overthinking absolutely everything.