A lot with a little

from The Map is Mostly Water [alt+shift+b] in life

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest — The Fool, King Lear Some works are better for their brevity. Fan Ho needs very little: Most of the image is black, or blurry. You can scarcely tell what materials you’re looking at. But the essential is there: A subject and a perspective that makes the scene almost haunting in its depth. That the rest is

a year ago

Remove from reading list Add to reading list [alt+a] Read now [→]

Improve your reading experience

Logged in users get linked directly to articles resulting in a better reading experience. Please login for free, it takes less than 1 minute.

More from The Map is Mostly Water

Why make something beautiful?

on starting a rose garden

6 days ago • 7 votes

Love Grows

The world is covered with a thin film of inertia.

3 weeks ago • 13 votes

Resist Summary

painfully quick thoughts about AI

2 months ago • 42 votes

School is Not Enough

Learning is a consequence of doing

4 months ago • 56 votes

Breadcrumbs

One belief I have is that if you wish to be virtuous you will learn to eat cereal virtuously.

4 months ago • 56 votes

More in life

Buddhism Consumed

The Unbundling of Dharma by Secular Materialism

15 hours ago • 3 votes

80/20 Breathing

the rest is commentary

19 hours ago • 2 votes

A decade of dissent: defying the global psychopaths

In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on its content in 2022.

21 hours ago • 2 votes

Access to the super secret google doc log!!

for BAT paying subscribers only

16 hours ago • 2 votes

The World Was Flat. Now It's Flattened

The state of the culture, 2025

10 hours ago • 1 votes

New here?