Austin Kleon - Questions for technology

Hey y’all,

Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing this week: 

1. Questions for technology.
    
2. The September pick for our Read Like An Artist book club is Rob Walker’s The Art of Noticing!
    
3. Art requires a sacrifice and a risk.
    
4. Feels like the end of an era: My publisher, Workman, one of the largest independents, is being acquired by Hachette.
    
5. Werner Herzog is publishing two new books. (An avid reader, he has famously said that he might be a better writer than a filmmaker.)
    
6. After retweeting some love for Pilot G2 gel pens, several people recommended Sharpie’s S-Gel series. They’re pretty good! (See other pens I like in my list of favorite gear.) 
    
7. TV: I wrote about the significance of a snippet of Tennyson’s poetry recited in The White Lotus. (If you’ve watched the series, I recommend this spoiler-filled exit interview with creator Mike White.)
    
8. Nestflix is a search engine for movies within movies.
    
9. RIP composer R. Murray Schafer. I love his teaching that silence is ear cleaning.
    
10. Reminder: “One must cultivate one’s own garden.”