celine nguyen 📖 ◡ 📖
@mynameisceline
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designer, writer, Marcel Proust stan ✦ bylines @theatlantic @artreview_ @believermag @clereviewbooks 👩🏻💻 🌐 🎨
London, England
Joined August 2010
AI is so funny…it wrote all my API calls and React routing for me, then panicked when it had to close some <div> tags
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I wrote about DESIGN and DESIGN THINKING (good? bad? saving the world? destroying it?) + Maggie Gram's insightful new book for @TheAtlantic
Many designers don’t just want to make the world more beautiful—they want to make it a better place. A new book shows why they have so often failed to do so, writes @mynameisceline:
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sadly this tweet has not dissuaded me from pairing Kiko Kostadinov ballet trainers with adidas shorts. I will pay for my fashion sins but not until next year.
Wait. Let me get this right. You’re wearing adidas shorts with ballet flats…? Oh I see. The juxtaposition between the two….
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this essay is SO good—a history lesson on where the concept of "soft skills" came from, how workplaces are dealing with automation/AI anxieties, some fresh commentary on the current political situation…beautifully written…discreetly FUNNY….love all of @lilyscherlis's writing
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RT @pwiscila: I’m actually a little bit of an Angel Investor myself. My friends are the angels and I am Invested.
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videogame traditions that must be revived.
A good time to remind everyone that The Sims 1 originally came with a list of recommend reading, so don't even THINK about loading into Create-a-Sim until you've read Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christopher W. Alexander
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my only regret in life is that I started playing Neopets before I knew what a password manager was.
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this is extremely extremely charming.
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for the @LAReviewofBooks, I wrote about @cgingold's Building SimCity (a remarkable work of software history!), videogames as an art form, and what happens when Silicon Valley tries to play IRL SimCity…aka the controversial Californian Forever project 🌁🛠️
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the greatest literary works of art are fundamentally incompressible imo—a summary will never retain what makes the work so special, you simply need to experience the work directly & be moved by it.
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Rilke’s advice on writing from your own life—the subjective experiences & intense curiosities 🕊️.
I really loved this excerpt from @mynameisceline 's newsletter as once again, it feels like great advice on writing generally. Do not write the same familiar framings of the world when you start but instead look for what others can't or haven't felt or thought about
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I’ve admired The Believer for years (consistently charming, wide-ranging, and well-designed) and it’s such a special SF literary institution!!. very delighted I got to contribute a book review to this issue 🖋️ like, subscribe, buy a copy from your local independent bookstore….
Our fall issue is on its way! Believer 147 includes essays by @wtmcgrath, @mychalsmith, and @r_emmet; interviews with @BootsRiley, @kathleenhanna, Kaveh Akbar, Kate Zambreno, and @vulfpeck’s Jack Stratton; columns by @girinathan, @nickhornby, and Carrie Brownstein; and much more.
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what I’m happiest about is that I’ve heard from art historians & technologists who found this useful, nuanced, invigorating…my greatest aspiration is to bridge C.P. Snow’s two cultures….
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wrote about AI art in my newsletter last week—critics [commenters] are calling this “the most careful consideration of this conflict I’ve read so far”; “SO thoughtful and SO well-timed” 💻🖌️
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Brian Eno on software design, making music on a computer, and the "total delight" of KidPix 🎹💿🖌️. (from an email to Stewart Brand on July 2, 1995)
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waiting for my flight…reading Brian Eno’s diary…listening to the og Music for Airports (parents chastising their children, luggage wheels clicking on the tiled floors).
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last weekend 🚆🤍 everyone I've talked to about this has been like omg that seems so useful and productive and leisurely and exciting…and it was!! . highly recommend trapping yourself on a low-carbon transportation method for a weekend & researching/writing with friends.
we did it! 36 hours on the zephyr from san francisco to denver—the train is an excellent place for focus & flow. trip report below
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🎧🎧🔜🔜.
Great week of recording for the @clereviewbooks podcast. @dolanmart_in on the business and buzzy-ness of debuts; @thomashobohm transposed Jameson political unconscious onto an analysis of GPT; @mynameisceline on the right wing inertia of diagonal alliances; @Leah_Abrams on style.
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a truly excellent interview between two excellent writers.
Enjoyed talking to @anandi010 about writing, Rohmer, Proust, Edward Yang and many other things! Link here:
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