The Art of Noticing

The Art of Noticing

Complaining, Making, Doing, Arguing

Your best argument is what you do.

Rob Walker
Oct 28, 2022
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In the course of doing some work research, I bumped into a quote I’ve encountered in the past: “The best way to complain is to make things.” This gets cited a lot, attributed to LCD Soundsystem founder James Murphy.

It’s a great line. I’ve written in the book and earlier issues of TAoN about the virtues of productive complaining. (And of course plenty o…

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