Agalia Tan
- there’s a certain intractable uneasiness we all feel about being alive, and that flits between feelings of loneliness and feelings over being totally overwhelmed and feeling nothing and feeling scared and none of those things present in the same way each individual time we feel them, and the great trick friend.com and its ilk is attempting to do pu... See more
from Can you be my friend.com
when creating vector, i thought of...
perhaps, for vector, we aren’t selling solutions, but making a statement.
On a broader cultural level, not all briefs require solutions, but instead statements? maybe?
- I know that it’s easy to observe when people are feeling insecure. Notice how much they are mentioning their positive attributes, material possessions, or important friends, when there’s no conversational reason for this to be occurring other than a status claim. It is harder to spot yourself doing this, but it is worth the effort — you are likely ... See more
from 50 Things I Know by Sasha Chapin
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
- The data uncanny valley: how overoptimisation leads us to the loss of more human, more beautiful emotional things.
- 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
- The difference between seriousness and sincerity is not how involved you are in the activities of your life, but in how tightly you grip. In fact, I would go even further still: Gripping less tightly can unlock better performance and with much less effort, as I’ve written about before. Simple activities, like playing catch, floating in a pool, or b... See more
from Be Sincere—Not Serious
- When I asked Whaley about the competitive advantage or vision for MSCHF, he bristled slightly and would only answer obliquely. “I have to think about MSCHF in a 100-year timeframe,” he told me. “Otherwise we are incentivized to take shortcuts.”
I think I understood what he meant. A century-long vision allows you to build something that mostly ignor... See morefrom The Art of Scaling Taste by Evan Armstrong
The first social media babies are adults now. Some are pushing for laws to protect kids from their parents’ oversharing | CNN
“sharenting” — where do you draw the line between the private and public sphere now?
relates to those wedding proposal videos people love sharing now
