Industry v. creativity.
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Godin’s The Practice: “1. It’s Possible”
“It’s possible” seems like a good place to start.
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Godin’s The Practice: “Trust Your Self”
An important premise, which serves as epigraph for the whole book: “The magic of the creative process is that there is no magic.”
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Pragmatism and democracy (Bacon, Chapter 2: Dewey)
Of the first wave of pragmatists — Peirce, James, and Dewey — Dewey spoke most explicitly about democracy, putting him at the heart of my inquiry about pragmatism and ethics in a post-truth world.
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Pragmatism: Round 1, Fight! (Bacon, Chapter 1: Peirce and James)
Photo by Random Sky on Unsplash I love how contested and contentious pragmatism has been — and that it’s been that way from the beginning.
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Getting oriented: the arc of pragmatism (Bacon, Preface and Introduction)
Photo by Valentin B. Kremer on Unsplash It’s been awhile since I’ve spent much time with philosophy. It feels equal parts strange and good to be back.
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Post-truth pragmatism: When “what works” stops working
Photo by Kumiko SHIMIZU on Unsplash For the most part, a loosely defined pragmatism has helped me make sense of the world fairly well. But in this “post-truth” era — including, but not limited to, Trump and his enablers — I’ve been feeling the need to think more rigorously.
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YOLSF: One down, twenty-four to go
Back near the beginning of the year, I committed to “The Year of Living Short Fiction,” during which I would write 25 short stories in 2019. I just finished the first of those stories.
I think I’m a little behind.
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