The quiet art of attention

It's a bit heavy on the purple prose (though I was guilty of a very similar writing style in my 20s, and as I got on in life the purity of the idea became more important than its surrounding ornamental structures).

The gist of the article reminds me of a quote from the famous pianist Clara Schumann who would admonish her more virtuosic students for striving to play through passages as rapidly as possible.

"Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?"

So you're saying that Attention Is All You Need? (badum tss)

> It's a bit heavy on the purple prose (though I was guilty of a very similar writing style in my 20s, and as I got on in life the purity of the idea became more important than its surrounding ornamental structures).

I can see that.

Yes, and if you want the verbose version, an LLM can generate that.

The ornamentation I think is necessary to let the reader recreate something so ethereal to explain. Like a koan. It benefited me at least.

I still drift towards this overweening style myself if I'm not careful, which is probably why I hate it so much. I couldn't make it past paragraph 3.

Totally. Feels like a literary street performer.