Brain Pickings Maria Popova in conversation with Alexis Madrigal
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2015
- Maria Popova’s wildly popular blog “Brainpickings,” which started as a weekly e-mail to seven friends, now has fans like William Gibson, Drew Carey, Mia Farrow and Biz Stone and is included in the Library of Congress permanent web archive. A recent sampling includes Sylvia Bornstein on Pablo Neruda, 19th century illustrations of owls and ospreys, and Mark Rothko on beauty, friendship and art. Popova, a self-proclaimed “curious mind at large,” has written for Wired UK, Atlantic, New York Times, and Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab, and is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow. She appears in conversation with Alexis Madrigal, Fusion's Silicon Valley Bureau Chief, former senior editor at the Atlantic and staff writer at Wired, and author of Powering the Dream.
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No uh's, um's, er's or y'know's in her speech. A delight to listen to.
My goals in life. To speak like Maria Popova and John Danaher
Maria Popova is a role model for authenticity; genuine, sincere, brilliant. Brain picking is food for the mind, soul and heart.
I'm slowly becoming a huge fan of Brainpickings. I'm very inspired by the 'organic' beginnings of this unique website. (I'd never really thought of it as a blog.) Maria Popova is a gem.
Maria may be a generalist, but she has depth too. Unbelievably well read and articulate.
Thank you for uploading! Maria Popova is simply the shit. Her blog is amazing, and she is the kindest, wisest, smartest person, not to mention talented. Also, the guy who talks at 52:32 gets it. :')
A cozy mind streeeeeeetch. Thank you!
I am following her writings without knowing it's a blog. I like the way she presents from different fields of knowledge. It's kind of knitting words and ideas.
Listing to Maria , is as delightful as reading her work . Articulate .
Inspiring!:) That "generalist" vs. "noble dilettante" bit made me LOL.:)
27 min so smart about the advertisement- ways to do what she does - I already love her and her content since I have brain picking on my fb
¡Brilliant lady!
She is fabulous. Love. Love. Love ⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘
So ridiculously underrated
Love her :)
Maria is adept at maintaining interestingness without any tell-tale special effects to enslave the attention span of the reader/listener. This is no mean achievement. It calls for a carbon-free mojo. She has got it in ample measure.
Prof Sattar Basra interestingness? from a prof!?
did those 7 guys she worked with end up changing the world or not?
Hllo my dere
She looks like pam from the office!
maria would get well pumped
I had been a huge fan of Brainpickings from the beginning. Listening to this interview, and also the most recent podcast 2019 I am struck by how dishonest and condescending she as a person, is. She is simply doing what Claude Levi-Straus did before her, and also racoons; pick up the shiny bits and rearrange them in an acceptable order; it's called bricolage. I'm glad that she makes a living at this, now heavily subsidized by admirers of this very useful approach, but she didn't invent it and her disdain for whatever university she attended and claims of a unique approach are simply rubbish.
I loved the weekly artistic arrangement from many different sources. I was insulted by her arrogance live streaming, Yr post was vr welcome! @Rich Parker
meeeeeeoooooowwwwwwwwwww ..
I take it that Maria has joined the world of podcasting (and the RUclips videos that often correspond with them) as your comments were made in 2019. So sad to hear that the generous, kind and thoughtful voice of her blog does not translate to the podcast/video platforms, at least in your experience it does not. It hurts me to hear that although you found Brain Pickings Weekly to be creatively inspiring, not so when listening to/seeing Maria speak. Instead, you felt insulted by her and found her to be arrogant and disingenuous. I never heard her claim to have created something completely new and unique in how she puts things together on her blog. Perhaps I’ll look for other material of hers on RUclips and in the podcasting sphere. It does seem relevant that she was raised in Bulgaria when it was a part of the Soviet Union and only came to the US to attend college. It was difficult to get books (as she said) and creative stimulation was hard to come by. She has said that her grandparents read encyclopedias to her. Also, I have known other people who grew up in a Soviet bloc country (Albania) who came to the US and attended an Ivy League school. Their experience was not dissimilar to Maria’s in her struggle to make sense of two vastly different worlds.