creativity
Avoiding creativity, robot “love” and game addiction
Three more reads for your evening pleasure.
Adam Tinworth
Writer, journalist and lecturer. Has been blogging since 2001, but quite likes newsletters too.
neuroscience
Don’t think about this
Three links about worries, the climate and the ultimate ghosting.
creativity
The necessity of boredom
Why distraction is the enemy of creativity, wild camping is more attractive than you think, and how a lonely death might not be what it seems.
family
Engaged Reading Time is back
It’s back! After a three month hiatus, and a move away from the now-defunct newsletter platform Revue, ERT is back in your in-boxes.
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Engaged Reading Time - Season 2 is coming
The newsletter of interesting things is back — on a new platform.
The End.
So, here it is. The very last issue of Engaged Reading Time on Revue. Will it be the last issue completely? To be honest, I haven’t quite decided. This evening I will make the backups I need and store them safely, ready to use if I decided to resurrect
Musk wants to do WHAT? — Engaged Reading Time #90
Happy Friday, folks. Five days until Revue dies. But you don’t care about that do you? (If you do, here’s where you should move your Revue-based newsletter to…) But it’s nearly the weekend, so have some good reading and viewing to see you into the happy days.
Get in the sea, 2022. We’re done with you.
All I want for New Year is a year that I’m not glad to see the back of. * 2020? Get in the sea (in a socially distanced way) * 2021? Eff orf and keep effing off. * 2022? War, and energy crisis and financial crisis, and… oh, get in the sea.
The Twixtmas Issue — Engaged Reading Time
Revue’s not yet dead, so have another issue! Astonishingly, I’ve even picked up two subscribers since the last issue - welcome aboard to this newsletter-on-a-dying-platform. Burn, baby, burn. Musky Inferno… Artificial grass is evil Your plastic paradise is killing the planet. Ban this shit now. (I feel quite
Engaged Reading Time: The Burning Platform Edition
Greetings from the end of the Revue world. This little newsletter that couldn’t is going away in its current form in less than a month, because the new Overlord of the Blue Bird, Elongated Mustalid, has decreed that it must be so. All the team behind Revue are already
Engaged Reading Time - Issue #86
Dear subscribers old and new, Blah blah sorry for no issues blah blah excuse blah blah enjoy the links. Adam Have We Forgotten How to Read Critically? This might be better entitled “The Undeath of the Author”. It’s a function of the context collapse that the internet facilitates, but
Engaged Reading Time - Issue #85
Here's some links. Don't read them all at once… The bullwhip effect: A beginner’s guide Want to understand the roots of the supply chain chaos that's having all sorts of unexpected side-effects? You need to understand the bullwhip effect… Apple’s astonishing MacBook