Agalia Tan
- There is a big difference between being interested in something and being committed to something.
Committed people do what interested people won’t.from Brain Food: Interested vs. Committed
- 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
- “Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”
from The Art of Scaling Taste by Evan Armstrong
- Develop a keen sense of what you love . Be devoted to the art of finding great and small loves, of nurturing old loves, and kindling new ones.
from 30 Lessons From Art / Business / Life — Kening Zhu
- “communal computing.” What I care about most is technology as a medium for humanity. I care about making technology feel more like a material that we can use to connect better with each other or express ourselves or create things; tools and spaces that allow us to gather, play, and share in the joy of making things together.
from An Interview with Spencer Chang | Are.na Editorial
- 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.
- “counterfeit fitness”: the constant, momentary “wins” that come with playing digital games give us a false sense of progression and accomplishment, a neurochemical high that feels like victory but is not, and which, if it becomes a habit, risks placating our ambitions to pursue true fulfilment.
from Why Everything is Becoming a Game
what are some examples of ‘counterfeit fitness’?
- Becoming a vehicle for capitalistic desires of abundance and overconsumption. We’re asking, what would an underconsumption-core of love look like? What if we could take only what we required in the moment, better able to understand ourselves and our needs in the context of the present?
- The ‘90s version of not selling out meant refusing to play certain spaces or not letting your song be in a beer commercial. The ‘20s version of selling out means making things in limited quantities to play against mass culture. Though different, the responses come from a similar place. They’re both sensing a culture where, to quote Claire L. Evans ... See more
from Sell out without selling out