Tag: Attention
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iPhone Portrait Mode, 10 Years In
There’s a saying in painting that if you get the eyes right, nothing else matters. Inspired by this principle from oil painting, the idea was to make sure we never got the eyes wrong. — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2026/10/25/manzari-iphone-portrait-mode
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Kanye West, Sam Bankman-Fried, and the Cult of Not Reading – The Atlantic
Many books should not have been published, and writing one is an excruciating process full of failure. But when a book succeeds, even partially, it represents a level of concentration and refinement—a mastery of subject and style strengthened through patience and clarified in revision—that cannot be equaled. Writing a book is an extraordinarily disproportionate act:…
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The Book That Changed My Life review – these joyful tales of the power of reading are TV magic | Television & radio | The Guardian
tackling Wuthering Heights “one word, one word, one word” at a time until suddenly the chaos of her classroom fell away and “it’s snowing. I’m on a moor.” — Read on www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/oct/14/the-book-that-changed-my-life-review-bbc-two-iplayer
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David Squires on … the endless growth of football vodcasts and banal digital banter | Football | The Guardian
Our cartoonist looks at the battle for eyeball and earhole supremacy in the game’s rapidly changing media landscape — Read on www.theguardian.com/football/picture/2026/oct/13/david-squires-on-endless-growth-football-podcasts-vodcasts-banal-digital-banter
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Things That Are Good to Do — Quarter Mile
Character compounds. Habits compound. Small choices matter. Protect your future self. Forgive your past self. Respect your present self. — Read on www.quarter–mile.com/Things-That-Are-Good-to-Do
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Write Things Down – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Biological evolution is the slowest and most permanent form of learning, but it takes millennia; oral communication is like a context window, effective but lossy; actually writing things down is what made learning extendable and scalable. — Read on stratechery.com/2026/write-things-down/
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Are You Good at Mowing Lawns?
So it’s not about thinking more or faster, but when thinking happens. That’s what a good heuristic does: it spends your attention on the decisions that matter and nothing on the ones that don’t. — Read on kottke.org/26/08/are-you-good-at-mowing-lawns
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‘Am I 68? 69?’ Irvine Welsh on growing old, getting clean, bashing out his new novel – and flirting with guns | Irvine Welsh | The Guardian
“The worst part is the psychological thing. Once [drug use] is in your emotional vocabulary as your get-out – ‘I can stop feeling crap by doing this’ – you have to reorder your thinking.” View image in fullscreen Las Vegas, where Welsh’s new novel is set. Photograph: Heather Diehl/Getty Images Reordering thoughts isn’t always easy,…