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Letter 2: Joan Didion Against a Performative Life

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.

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Apr 12, 2025
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“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 perform. She wrote to understand — to pin down a flicker of thought…

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