Agalia Tan
- Create a "failure resume". Document your mistakes and what you learned from them. This helps normalize failure and turn it into a powerful tool for growth. You'll read it and be reminded
from How to win in your 20s
- As a kid, gardens and the internet both offered a place to dream, create, and play.
But that was then. Today, the internet is an omnipresent force that organizes the ways we learn, connect, and love—often in ways that are more nefarious than virtuous. The internet is a place, and that place has largely been led by those who value the accumulation of... See morefrom On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
failings of the modern internet
“ORGANISES”
- Attempting to define, quantify and strategize around the zeitgeist is a game of tag. That’s what we’re after. That’s the Sisyphean task. It’s utterly daunting and exhausting, but that challenge is also where the opportunity (and fun) lies.
from Making Sense of Culture Amidst Contradiction by Matt Klein
so what do we do then if we can’t ever catch culture?
- If you think someone is normal, you don’t know them very well. Normalcy is a fiction. Your job is to discover their weird genius.
from feed updates
- The self is not something you can set out looking for; it reveals itself gradually through the choices you make.
We must cease to concern ourselves with our unique suffering – whether we are happy or sad, fortunate or unfortunate, good or bad – and give up our neurotic and debilitating journeys of self-discovery. Art of true value requires, like a j
... See morefrom Two Kinds of Introspection by www.henrikkarlsson.xyz
the other side of feedback culture and things you should remember
Hold on tightly, but let go lightly. Nearly everything can be replaced. And if it can’t be replaced, celebrate its existence instead of fretting over its loss.
- Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.
from 3-2-1: On living with lightness, the root cause of sin, and how to compete without losing yourself
Aldous Huxley
cages or wings - which do you prefer?
let’s find some serendipity on the internet
- “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