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@alexwastaken
curious librarian
alex
“Our destiny is in the stars, even if we have to launch from the ashes of a world.”
― Ruthanna Emrys, A Half-Built Garden
beautiful description of the many kinds of friendships
make websites cool again!!!! // visual diary #015: some interesting website interfaces i’ve seen lately.
Arrianesubstack.comI don't know. Could be worse. Could be better. I don't subscribe to any kind of theory that says things used to be better. That's bullshit. 200 years ago, people used to just, like, stare at flowers and go, "man we stare at flowers too much we gotta be farming."
Alex Dobrenko` • I posted 300+ Threads in 3 days
“Your purpose is not the thing you do. It’s the thing that happens in others when you do what you do.”
– Dr. Caroline Leaf
– Dr. Caroline Leaf
Coming back on here after a week away I’m practically knocked over by the sheer quantity of opinions – for a few minutes it just seems so strange that people enjoy spending so much of their time telling other people how they feel about various things! Of course I’ll be fully back into it myself in no time… still, I would like to hold onto the... See more
Oliver Burkemansubstack.coma lot of celebrated qualities are incompatible with each other. Ambition often comes with discontent; focus with rigidity; contentment with complacency. A couple that does everything together probably has fewer close friends. A social butterfly might have a messy house. These are crude examples, but it’s worth remembering that we all have to assess... See more
via Haley Nahman
Once you have many people doing something, you have lots of competition and little differentiation. You, generally, never want to be part of a popular trend… So I think trends are often things to avoid. What I prefer over trends is a sense of mission. That you are working on a unique problem that people are not solving elsewhere.