Letter 2: Joan Didion Against a Performative Life
On obsession, attention and 5 quiet rituals that invite more presence, less scrolling and the kind of cool Joan Didion lived by.
“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means.”
— Joan Didion
Creating content is the opposite of art. Ottessa Moshfegh said that, and I’m sure Joan Didion would’ve nodded in agreement.
Didion didn’t write to be seen. She didn’t write to per…