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First we shape our social graph, then it shapes us (2022)

You are always internalizing the culture around you. Even when you wish you didn’t. So you better surround yourself with something you want inside—curate a culture.

When it was discovered that Pascal, then a young teenager, had rederived several of Euclid’s proofs, the family relocated to Paris so father and son could participate in the mathematical salons of Mersenne. Anthony Keidis, the lead singer of the band, remarks in the interview that what sets Frusciante apart as a guitarist is that he is uncommonly undistractable(“he can really focus and concentrate and apply himself to his craft in a way where the noise of the world has less of an impact”). I could recite Tomas Tranströmer’s collection Baltics in its entirety from memory, and when one of the directors at the Royal Dramatic Theater took me under his wings, teaching me how to move an audience, I started getting a steady stream of invitations to read my verse.

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