Became aware of your existence about an hour ago on NYT. Enjoyed your 2012 opinion as much as your 2022. You got my attention mister. Might try to read your book too. If I am not too busy being busy, of course.
Huge admirer of your essays... loved both We Learn Nothing and I Wrote ..... absolutely looking forward to your Substack and hope there’s another collection of essays out soon. Thank you 😊
Sounds like a paraphrase/reiteration of Nietzsche: "'I have done that,' says my memory. 'I cannot have done that,' says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually—memory yields." -Beyond Good and Evil
"Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; in a month, there are about 600,000 - most of them don't leave a trace." ~ Daniel Kahneman
Love your work—I can't count the number of times I've linked your "Guns Are for Pussies" essay to people—but I look at all these people in the world who are constantly distracted and miserable and aggrieved, and then I look at the set of people that have TikTok accounts, and the uncanny intersection between the two, and can't help but feel like a lot of our problems are self-inflicted. To paraphrase Eleanor Roosevelt, no one can make you a lazy, incurious dipshit without your consent.
Tim comes in with such vivid clarity: "In the past few decades, capitalism has exponentially increased the creation of wealth for the already incredibly wealthy at the negligible expense of the well-being, dignity and happiness of most of humanity, plus the nominal cost of a mass extinction and the destruction of the biosphere — like cutting out the inefficient business of digestion and metabolism by pouring a fine bottle of wine directly into the toilet, thereby eliminating the middleman of you."
Humorous footnote: That line was a condensation of a whole anecdote deemed too unseemly for the Times to print, for a number of reasons: Once, years ago, under the influence of LSD, I was so dehydrated I was gulping water from a pitcher while simultaneously urinating, and it occurred to me, in a "eureka" moment of tripping logic, that it would be more efficient simply to pour the water directly into the toilet.
Loved your books Tim, looking forward to seeing more!
So, I appear to be the 73rd person roped in by your piece in the Times. Looking forward to more.
Me too… 10?
Became aware of your existence about an hour ago on NYT. Enjoyed your 2012 opinion as much as your 2022. You got my attention mister. Might try to read your book too. If I am not too busy being busy, of course.
Huge admirer of your essays... loved both We Learn Nothing and I Wrote ..... absolutely looking forward to your Substack and hope there’s another collection of essays out soon. Thank you 😊
“Time passes. Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms,” she writes, “to what we think we remember.”
I'll go for it! even while remembering my guru George Carlin's famous saying; "It's all bullshit, and its 's bad for ya!"
Sounds like a paraphrase/reiteration of Nietzsche: "'I have done that,' says my memory. 'I cannot have done that,' says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually—memory yields." -Beyond Good and Evil
"Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; in a month, there are about 600,000 - most of them don't leave a trace." ~ Daniel Kahneman
That recent NYT gem got me here: I took the bait!
Excellent essay in the times today, sir. Looking forward to more. But, you know, just keeping an eye out-not actively engaged in the search itself.
Can you and Tim Urban be in that threesome?
Stick with the threesome fantasy -- it doesn't disappoint.
Hah! I do believe I might want to see more of your stuff.
Love your work—I can't count the number of times I've linked your "Guns Are for Pussies" essay to people—but I look at all these people in the world who are constantly distracted and miserable and aggrieved, and then I look at the set of people that have TikTok accounts, and the uncanny intersection between the two, and can't help but feel like a lot of our problems are self-inflicted. To paraphrase Eleanor Roosevelt, no one can make you a lazy, incurious dipshit without your consent.
I'm a huge fan of your work. Looking forward to The Loaf. :)
I encourage anyone who's new to Tim's work to buy his books. They are full of witty, entertaining observations and stories.
The line about sadistic codicils was so on point and creatively funny I hit the subscribe button for more, good luck Tim with this endeavor
FINALLY. 👏
Tim comes in with such vivid clarity: "In the past few decades, capitalism has exponentially increased the creation of wealth for the already incredibly wealthy at the negligible expense of the well-being, dignity and happiness of most of humanity, plus the nominal cost of a mass extinction and the destruction of the biosphere — like cutting out the inefficient business of digestion and metabolism by pouring a fine bottle of wine directly into the toilet, thereby eliminating the middleman of you."
Humorous footnote: That line was a condensation of a whole anecdote deemed too unseemly for the Times to print, for a number of reasons: Once, years ago, under the influence of LSD, I was so dehydrated I was gulping water from a pitcher while simultaneously urinating, and it occurred to me, in a "eureka" moment of tripping logic, that it would be more efficient simply to pour the water directly into the toilet.
I think it's a good edit!