Agalia Tan
- About half of my friends kind of hate their jobs, so they're moderately unhappy most of the time, but never unhappy enough to leave. This is the mediocrity trap : situations that are bad-but-not-too-bad keep you forever in their orbit because they never inspire the frustration it takes to achieve escape velocity.
The mediocrity trap is a nasty way t... See morefrom So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself by Adam Mastroianni
- Scorsese said he wanted to see how the Band’s music was made. Where did it come from? “I wanted to see what that magic was,” he said. “But ultimately there’s a lifestyle, too, that goes along with it. And a lot of it has to do with partying. And, okay: Partying went way out of hand for me. Because I didn’t know how to control it. But, I also wanted... See more
from Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
we are shaped by our tools, systems, and environment
there’s a lifestyle that comes with your wanting. Can you accept that if that’s the transformation you wish to opt into?
Is the quality of being free and uninhibited also then about being able to choose freely what you wanna be
- The nature of our fad culture is driving more value not just to those who blow up, but to those who can hold on to their 15 seconds of fame, a task made harder thanks to our information overload.
from Creators Eating the World by Tal Shachar
“holding on to the 15s of fame”. Maybe it’s not about mainstream fame, but it’s about micro-fame. I feel like I saw this somewhere
- “It’s frustrating feeling like you are always waiting for someone to say yes”
from strat*scraps_v152
relatable on many levels
- Again, why do films have to be these static, fixed things? Why can’t they be these fluid, storytelling structures that you could keep adding things to and keep revising? Yeah, it’s always been this constraint of the medium, that now, when everything is digital, there’s no physical media that we’re dealing with with film. So, why are we still held b... See more
from The making of Eno, the first generative feature film
Show up in spaces where you’re fluent in the language and culture, and where the people feel like your people.
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Identifying these media that are right for you will mean that your communication is more reciprocal too - you’ll find yourself genuinely interested in the people who are also hanging out there, and that means you’re more likely to enter intfrom How to talk about your work in public
- sometimes people unfairly collapse reality via cliche.
from 50 Things I Know by Sasha Chapin
- At T-minus seven minutes to the meeting, I rushed my laptop up a flight of stairs to the desk of a secretary and huffed out a desperate plea: Please print this for me, seven copies. She looked up at what surely was a normal speed, but which I perceived as the pace of a snail emerging from a shell, and said,
“Just give me a second, dear.” She smiled.
... See morefrom I Felt Important
it’s always a matter of perspective, and unless you’re saving lives, nothing is that urgent
- The sensation is one of wandering aimlessly, picking up and putting down partly-interesting objects with a sense of generalized indifference. I started noticing something else, too: the impulses powering my behavior weren’t even articulated. The reason for checking and scrolling was rarely in response to an actual inquiry. The impulse to scroll rem... See more
from The Ecology of Attention by Lia Purpura