Baking with Kafka

“I'm just going to stare out of this window until I have a genius idea.”

Living an artistic life involves a lot of staring at blank walls. Even the best writers spend most of their time feeling like total frauds.

Classic literature feels heavy until you realize authors were just people with weird obsessions. Gauld shows how even Kafka might have just wanted a nice pastry.

Modern technology makes the old ways of writing look very romantic and very slow. We trade our focus for tiny digital distractions every single day.

“I see you’ve bought the challenging novel that everyone is talking about.”

Bookstores are holy places where we buy versions of ourselves we hope to become. Half the fun is just owning the thing.