Agalia Tan
- WHEN REVIEWING WORK, THINK IN THEMES. Let the CD worry about plot holes.
from strat*scraps_v152
- “Wellness culture encourages people to view their health as a perpetual work in progress and to be constantly monitoring how they feel — two things that can heighten anxiety and preoccupation with illness,” she explains. “Rather than being able to appreciate the health and capabilities that we have, we are encouraged to always strive for more, to b... See more
From Dazed
- The process of reducing a briefing requires great courage, rigor and repertoire.
You have to make brave choices and say a thousand times more No’s than Yes’s.You have to respond rigorously to the problem that you’re trying to solve.You have to have a vast repertoire of references in and outside Advertising in order to get to fresh thinking - and tha... See morefrom Extraordinary Vocabulary, Word #8: Reductionism by Fernando Ribeiro
- Tools encourage default behaviors, they dictate patterns and golden paths. These represent the tool makers’ ideal user experiences. If following along breaks your back, then it’s not because you tried to lift too much, it’s because the tool applied pressure in all the wrong places.
we are shaped by our tools, systems, and environment
from basecamp
- Move toward the next thing, not away from the last thing.
Same direction. Completely different energyfrom 3-2-1: On the shortness of life, what mastery requires, and how to overlap the things you love
- Quality Time as a lens on experience design means looking for the ways we might stay. How we linger. It is being in relationship. Listening. Remembering. Witnessing each other. Sharing space. Slowing down enough to taste time.
- Good character is not about maximizing virtues but moderating them: to be sensitive without being fragile, confident without being cocky, steadfast without being stubborn, driven without being reckless, focused without being obsessed.
from 40 Mind-Expanding Concepts (Spring 2023) by Gurwinder
- Jonathan Haidt is right when he talks about the sudden switch from play-based to phone-based childhoods and how it destroyed mental health—particularly for young girls. Our childhoods weren’t spent toying with risk and danger, teaching ourselves we could cope with it, learning that it’s baked into life. We had bans on play fighting. Health and safe... See more
from Risk-Aversion Is Killing Romance - By Freya India - GIRLS by freyaindia.co.uk
- “The thinking part of you can tell you that a decision has been made, but it’s not the part of you which decides things.”
from #181 Dear Baby: Am I fit to be a parent?
can someone send this to him??