Agalia Tan
- The app also has a serendipity slider from “Only show my selected interests” to “Show me everything.”
from Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress
- To find a good relationship, you do not start by saying, “I want a relationship that looks like this”—that would be starting in the wrong end, by defining form. Instead you say, “I’m just going to pay attention to what happens when I hang out with various people and iterate toward something that feels alive”—you start from the context.
from Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process by Henrik Karlsson
love and dating and
- Furniture is the heavy things that hold down the corners of your life.
- We don’t just want to be a utility. We want to be something that brings emotion.
from Designing For Desire
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
—Terry Pratchett
Are the people this place attracts the sort of people I want to spend time with and become more like? Is the system that is in place here one that pushes and cajoles and processes people to become more like the kind of person I’d like to be?
- We very often do not have the time to create what we need by ourselves. It’s reasonable to ask who on Earth is expected to return our emails or make our dinners while we wile away our time crafting. We’ve increased the distance between ourselves and the things we need or want—and also made for ourselves a steeper learning curve for meeting our own ... See more
from Redefining "Handy" and Learning How to Make Things
You need to let yourself have time! The effects are intangible but so so important
Takeaways from Jerry Seinfeld on Tim Ferriss:
To survive in comedy you have to be a writer
“As any writer can tell you it’s 95% re-write”
“I think I could solve just about anyone’s life, I don’t care what you do, with weight training and transcendental meditation” Jerry Seinfeld
“If you could take your experiences and ask to trade them in, the las
