Burn: After Reading

But in our obsession with saving everything, we’ve forgotten the sacred art of destruction.

We mistake documentation for wisdom. We think that if we write it down, we must protect it, defend it, and build a shrine around it. But most of our ideas aren’t monuments. They are . Burn After Reading

We live in an age of permanence.

I’m not talking about burning books. I’m talking about burning your books. Your old journals. Your five-year business plans. The list of grievances you wrote last Tuesday. The manifesto you drafted at 2 AM. But in our obsession with saving everything, we’ve

We backup our phones to the cloud. We archive our emails. We screenshot conversations “just in case.” Every half-formed thought, grocery list, and passive-aggressive tweet is preserved for eternity on a server somewhere. But most of our ideas aren’t monuments

And then burn it before it turns into a cage.