A small argument for durable minds
leaf one
[ filed under: future ]
Write
good
books.
The oldest way to leave a mind behind is still one of the kindest.
I.
A good book does not broadcast a conclusion. It lends a reader the shape of another attention.
II.
Its sentences can travel farther than their maker, then become intimate in a room they could never have entered.
III.
It is a quiet technology for keeping experience from vanishing all at once.
IV.
Write with enough care that a stranger, years from now, can feel less alone in their own thinking.
Not content. Not output.
A hand held open across time.
Make it worth turning the page.