Short Read: De-Atomization is the Secret to Happiness

Nat Eliason | 8 minutes

There are at least two kinds of fun: 
Type 1 fun is fun in the moment. Watching a movie, playing a video game, scrolling TikTok, reading a book. You want to have fun, you do the fun thing, and voilá, it is fun. 

Type 2 fun is fun in retrospect. Running a marathon is mostly un-fun from moment to moment; you’re often either zoned out or in some form of pain. But in retrospect, it was fun.

Snippets

Creative people often despise those that criticize work without having work of their own.
Something Teddy Roosevelt referred to as “being in the arena.” We respect opinions from those that are in the trenches with us, doing the hard things that we try to do. 

- Sean Blanda, The Creative World’s Bullshit Industrial Complex

People seek meaningful places worthy of calling home. These can be found, adventure tells us, but belonging reminds us that with our own efforts they can (they must) be made.
All worthy places were once unworthy, after all.

- Simon Sarris, Familiarity and Belonging