Agalia Tan

Milner, after keeping a diary and trying to pinpoint what experiences truly make her feel alive, realizes that she seems to pay two kinds of attention: “narrow attention” and “wide attention.” She describes them in a chapter called “Two Ways of Looking”:

(1) Narrow attention. – This first way of perceiving seemed to be the automatic one, the kind of... See more

We often keep our connections close to our chests, guarding them like precious resources, believing that by holding onto them, we’re preserving their value. But here’s the irony: by doing that, we’re actually diminishing their value. Networks don’t thrive in isolation; they come alive when the number of connections—the nodes within them—increases.

The person who carefully designs their daily routine goes further than the person who negotiates with themselves every day.

Let inertia work for you.

The basis for any approach to self-transformation is an ever-increasing awareness of reality and the shedding of illusions,” writes Erich Fromm in The Art of Being. He refers often to awakeness, to making conscious what is repressed. To not just hearing, but listening. Not just seeing, but looking, watching. You can do this anywhere, with anything.... See more

If the work feels like a drag, you're doing it wrong

We’re just happy to see a great creative idea that hasn’t been crushed by the forces of mediocrity that have a stranglehold on the behind-the-scenes stuff: channels, distribution, platforms, shelf space.

He does not measure his work in days (as he used to do Hemingway ), but by months or years. “That way you don't feel terrible if you put together three days without going out with God knows what. You don't feel blocked"