Agalia Tan
- The journey is about continual way-finding. It’s not like you find a way and then you’re done. Way-finding must happen everyday.
from 30 Lessons From Art / Business / Life — Kening Zhu
- A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men - Roald Dahl
the law of attraction
- Something else happens in a world of superabundance, and an attention economy. Because you can’t find what you want, you start to dig yourself into very specific niches, and join sub-groups. Everyone atomizes into millions of groups connected by very specific interests. In more benign ways, it can be great – you find your fellow travelers, and I ca... See more
from Ten (Big) Trends
the other side of niches
- Extrapolate this out, and you’ll find the best agencies have a department of chameleons. Art directors that write. Writers that paint. Designers with $10,000 cameras. Creative directors with three unfinished screenplays and novels sitting in their bottom drawer. (We’ll get to them one day. One day...)
What this means for an agency is that there are... See morefrom The argument for creative chameleons.
- "When you're on the field, play as if nothing else matters.
When you're off the field, remember that the game doesn't matter at all."from 3-2-1: On living with lightness, the root cause of sin, and how to compete without losing yourself
- Thinly veiled insults (“Really?”/“That’s weird”/“…interesting”) are often compliments delivered by people who are at odds with themselves. Take them in stride.
- A primary reinforcer is something we’re born to desire. A conditioned reinforcer is something we learn to desire, due to its association with a primary reinforcer.
from Why Everything is Becoming a Game
we are shaped by our tools, systems, and environment
the world has been gamified
- When I say serious I
don’t
mean solemn and tedious.
I mean something closer to ‘dynamic persistence’, and a sense of humor is often critical to that. It’s hard to persist for a long time if you ‘take yourself too seriously’. You become rigid, stiff, the opposite of dynamic, and eventually you bang up against something that breaks you one way or ano... See morefrom Are You Serious? by Visakan Veerasamy