Agalia Tan
- Great questions don't appear
suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes
them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is
not to search for them — not to wander about thinking, what great
discovery shall I make? You can't answer that; if you could, you'd
have made it.from What You'll Wish You'd Known
- Digital gardens have largely been understood as websites that allow users to explore and publish thoughts in more fluid and unpolished ways. The term “digital garden” is not new. It’s been shaped by almost two decades of pondering, from early tinkerings in Mark Bernstein’s 1998 essay “Hypertext Gardens” to Mike Caulfield’s 2015 talk “The Garden and... See more
from On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
- You should just be yourself, not because it will make you more likable (it won’t) but because it's only by being yourself that you'll find people who like you for who you are rather than for who you're pretending to be.
from 23 Truths I Wish I Knew at 23
- the first task is not to feedback or critique. The first task is to fully step into the idea. Yet far too often, nascent, half-baked, vaguely sketched out ideas find themselves in the dock, alone. Surrounded not by accomplices, but by judges.
from The subtle art of stepping into an idea — Martin Weigel by Martin Weigel
Just because someone is saying things you don’t like doesn’t mean that they are not on your side.
Separate the processes of creating from improving. You can’t write and edit, or sculpt and polish, or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you write the first draft, don’t let the judgy editor get near. At the start, the creator mind must be unleashed from judgment.
from Interview: Kevin Kelly, Editor, Author, and Futurist by Kevin Kelly
- 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
- If the work feels like a drag, you're doing it wrong
from 30 Lessons From Art / Business / Life — Kening Zhu
- My job is not to think about what exists but rather what I want that does not yet exist.
from Lessons I'm still learning