Agalia Tan
You must never think at the typewriter — you must feel. Your intellect is always buried in that feeling anyway. (Ray Bradbury)
from What Is Creativity? Cultural Icons on What Ideation Is and How It Works by Maria Popova
Stop Ignoring All the Mundane Miracles in Your Life
things you should remember and what "living life to the fullest" looks like
Phones, with their ability to transport you to other worlds, want to convince you that the one you’re stuck in doesn’t have anything worth paying attention to. But through my journaling, I realized something: We’re shoulder to shoulder with many universes; countless lives, hopes, dreams and fears as complicated as our own, all clustered in the same crowded shops, train cars and sidewalks. Why ignore all that?
- Feel your feelings, big dawg, but also zoom out so you can hold at once how they feel huge in the brain and are utterly meaningless to everyone who walks this earth.
from well this is embarrassing
what "living life to the fullest" looks like and things you should remember
- If you serve as a mechanical slave to mass media and online algorithms, you’ll end up with intellectual diabetes. To find quality information, you have to rebel against the incentives of mass media and the algorithms that threaten its business model.Make no mistake. For the conscious news consumer, there has never been a better time to be alive. Th... See more
from The Paradox of Abundance - David Perell by David Perell
- It speaks to the fact that as individuals, we’re all expected to perform at the same scale as major brands. We're supposed to have monetizable output at all times. We can't have hobbies that are meaningless. Everything we do has to be a product.
You can't even express an interest in a particular social cultural landscape without somebody asking you ... See morefrom New Media IRL: "New Release" by Yacht
- Listening is a neglected social skill. But I know that an even more neglected social skill is candor.
from 50 Things I Know by Sasha Chapin
- There are many kinds of value. Time, space, personal freedom. Monetary worth is only one. You choose what holds the most weight.
- there are three cultural ‘roles’ that people are commonly divided into, namely ‘producer’, ‘participant’, and ‘observer’. In recent years, as social media has taken over so much of our social lives, the role of cultural participant feels as if it’s fading away. Herded into the opposing camps of producer and observer, we feel increasingly under pres... See more
from Q̾u̾i̾c̾k̾ ̾F̾i̾r̾e̾: Creation anxiety