The fix is not a better way of highlighting, but building in friction: forcing yourself to retrieve, explain or generate something without the source at hand. That feels harder and less successful in the moment, precisely because you can fail at it, and that friction is what leaves a lasting trace.

• Jeroen Sanders explaining why you need to reprocess things into your own words to truly internalize them.
  I feel like this applies as much to diary entries as it does studying.

A high-profile influencer can mobilize a following within hours of posting a standout dish at a restaurant, creating demand for a menu item that can’t possibly be sustained—all to re-create a moment that wasn’t theirs to begin with.

• Danny Chau, Before He Was Bourdain

Another evening visit to the restored rouge river.

I am this many years old. 💿

When I got to art as an undergraduate student, I felt like, oh, this is amazing. I want to be able to learn all of these things. But my program, like most art schools, was basically entirely conceptual. So I didn’t have any practical classes in terms of like how do you learn how to paint better?

You just have studio time where you sort of figure it out by yourself, and then you have crit classes where you gather with artists or other students who are all doing totally different things, and then you just talk about your project for an hour.

• Atalanta Arden-Miller