Delete this app, 9 photos of rocks

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Aug 21, 2024

High Thought is an intimate infusion of (high) thoughts that are a mixture of frivolous and (sometimes) profound if I’m lucky. Written with consideration for those interested in the creative process or personal peek behind the curtain into a particularly chaotic brain room.
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Delete the substack app

and take back your time? (If you want…otherwise go off!)

For me, the endless feed of clickbait is feeling familiar in ways that don’t make me feel good.

I deleted the app a few days ago because I realized that it brought absolutely nothing to my experience of enjoying corners of the internet with a little more depth. I had found myself opening the app and scrolling through Notes, which brought me no joy and only wasted my time with what had risen to the top across the platform, which tended to be things with clickable titles. That is lovely, but it isn’t why I’m here, personally.

This is me making my case for High Thought’s allergy to the perils of social media’s endless loop psychology. HT is decidedly unambitious when it comes to numbers, which are less and less helpful these days in determining quality or what may be worth stopping to look at.

In that spirit, I would like to present a few photos I took at the Museum of Natural History here in NYC in back February.

I had fun. I love rocks.