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Neighbors fought again. I put a speaker next to the wall and played a loud swaying tone reminiscent of high voltage hum. I could hear them stop arguing and start to coordinate to figure out where it was coming from.
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In Finland it's standard for people to have a gap in their CV of some years during their 20's. In job interviews it's accepted as normal and politely ignored. The section title for it in the default CV layout provided by the state translates roughly to "dark night of the soul".
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It's quiet now but I'm ready to use it again if they make up in their usual way.
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One good aspect about Finland is how nothing becomes a meme. There are no types of guys. With a population of 5.5 million, there's barely a guy per thing.
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I put on Vision Pro goggles for the first time and asked them to filter out branding from my environment. Suddenly what I saw around me was no longer America but a vast machine built for generating human biomass out of animal biomass and carbohydrates. This had been coupled to.
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(making small talk with the neighbor) all sunny days are alike; each rainy day is rainy in its own way.
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A model of Kafka's home, with his room in red. He had his own room, but for his parents to get to theirs, they had to go through his
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Night walk home, cherry trees are in bloom and birds are singing their most tentative tunes
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You can write a little about it in the box in the CV. Your putative employer will never comment on it, but they may come to understand you better as a person. Every job interview has some minutes of silence during which the interviewer reads this section and contemplates on it.
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On your way out the interviewer may give you an empathetic tap on the shoulder, as acknowledgement of having read and understood the contents of the "dark night of the soul" section. It's also the only occasion of bodily contact to be found in the Finnish behavioral etiquette.
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Kafka's draft of a letter to his boss explaining why he didn't come to work
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The first page of Kafka's manuscript for The Castle, where he crossed off "ich" to replace it with K., and the last, where he stopped writing mid-sentence, on display at the Morgan Library
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Many seek jobs just to express what they experienced during these years because you're not supposed to talk about it elsewhere than in your CV.
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This guy had an incredible setup for a coffee and cigarette in rainy midtown Manhattan
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Thinking again about the time Bladee got hit by lightning but just went to bed to sleep it off
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"Do you love the Dunkin app?". No. "Sorry to hear that. How could we improve?". Don't use the word love so carelessly.
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My favorite empty lot in NYC I spotted yesterday was this one in Carroll Gardens
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an abstract "quantity" that seemed to be squeezed out of the biomass in giant buildings resembling factories, offices and hospitals. The quantity flowed through the whole machine, towards a hidden heart that was like a black box, pixelated unrecognizable.
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I don't know what Apple is up to or whether this is intentional on their part but maybe don't try Vision Pro before the bugs are ironed out. It was not something I needed to see. Putting mine on the shelf until further notice.
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Victor Hugo's drawings in which he often used coal, soot and coffee
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I think some of you would enjoy this: “The Pillar” by Stephen Gill, a book of photographs taken at different times of a pillar and what’s happening on and by it
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Visited the home of Walter Gropius, founder of Bauhaus, in Lincoln, MA, now a museum
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Explaining at the job interview that I'm looking to pivot from introversion and dreams to extroversion and reality.
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Shows also the balcony of "the letter to Father" fame, where Kafka's father locked Kafka for a while in his nightgown.
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There's no doubt Bladee will publish his best work in his 40s, maybe 50s or 60s.
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Reject slop world, in arts, on the Internet, in politics, in thought and life. The noise intensifies, pay it no heed, have nothing to do with it at all, and it simply disappears.
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Photos that I took on motion picture film and a 65-year-old camera
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The longest silence in a conversation in recorded history occurred in 1873 near Koppelo, Finland. Two gold prospectors had set out on a land they had purchased after having witnessed a strange bright yellow bird bathing in a river that passed through it, which they considered.
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Samples from a booklet of fiction I wrote in the form of fake Wikipedia articles about Finnish literature. Populated with imaginary literary genres and writers struggling with having to use language, or in some cases, finding ways out of it
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My mom sent me this picture of their dog getting contemplative by a Finnish lake
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The downside is of course you wont have any buddies and you'll be known as "that guy".
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The only surviving photograph that Kafka took. The composition is laudable
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From a letter by a Finnish poet: "In my youth I often introduced myself as a 'dandelion farmer'. A blatant lie since I had a 9-5, but also a literal truth: when walking about I would gather dandelion seeds into a plastic sandwich bag until it was full. Then I'd find a hill, and.
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@arkmashton Sometimes not having culture is advantageous, I'd say. You shut down your computer and it's gone, all you hear is the forest swaying in the wind.
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The magic of TLR cameras is that you get to look at a screen without any electronics
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It's so rare to find people who viscerally understand what your experience of life is like or whose own point of view interacts with yours in interesting ways. It's probably the most precious thing there is.
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Need to go visit a forest soon to hear what's really going on this spring.
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On their way back, they caught a fish from the river. Back home, when gutting the fish, they discovered a nugget of gold worth enough to recoup the cost of the land and buy them two beers each. That night the silence was broken again by cheers over the beers.
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Thoreau's Walden cabin (here as a replica near the original site) is a near ideal living space
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"A cage went in search of a bird". The exhibition featured several of the original Zürau aphorism manuscripts
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Most peoples’ fantasies about moving to a rural location seem to involve the creation of a community of likeminded individuals. Not mine: it’s all about entering into a decades-long land border dispute with someone equally stubborn.
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