#tom chatfield

This is Gomorrah by Tom Chatfield

Tom Chatfield: Artificial idiocy

Set intelligence aside if you want to be lucky

Sometimes, getting ideas and tasks outside of my head is a kind of exorcism, a release of tension. Often, though, it's a gradual process of revelation. I create someting - and then I come back to it, again and again, updating and reflecting. I've set myself a standard, and it's my job either to live up to it - or to renegotiate the terms of the deal.

[W]e have the best hope of succeeding if we can reapply for the twenty-first century those principles that have always driven worthwhile critical disclosure: respect not for the authority in itself, but for the principles of honest argument, articulate self-awareness, and a genuine desire to learn.