Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".

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“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.”

—Carl Jung

i feel like as more social media platforms end up in legal battles re: their addictiveness and cultural debate about social media & its impact on mental health grows, substack will need to (and should!!) revamp its platform to make notes completely optional — separate notes notifications from newsletter notifications, make users who don’…

The most precious resource of today’s information environment is credulity.

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‘Stravedamento’ is a word whose full meaning is tricky to convey. It carries with it a sense of wonder, and comes from the dialect of the nearby town of Chioggia, whose fishermen coined ‘stravedamento’ to define a clear and visible horizon.

It’s one of those Italian words that you can’t translate literally but which …

I lived in the capital of the UK for two and a quarter years, at the turn of the Millennium. This fact seems a bit remarkable to me now, and I'm not sure how I lasted that long, as I'm such an unLondon person, such a lifelong bumpkin. But I had a good time when I was there, did lots of exciting things, interviewed some amazing people - film directors and actors and music legends - as part of the newspaper job l'd moved there for. Yet what stays with me most from that period is not meeting John …