Andrew Tam
@andrewtam
Andrew Tam
“the belief that technology should not only serve a practical purpose but also evoke an emotional response“
I basically navigate the world by vibes, smelling out opportunity, people, places where I’m wanted.
As you get older you’ll find most people you meet are really only fleeting moments of your life, and that’s okay. That’s normal. That’s life. Ride the wave anyhow. Get emotional. Feel sad when you break up. Do it again. It’s whatever. Hell, fall in love and run off with someone to a foreign country and get married if it comes up, or don’t. It doesn
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Writing is often treated as a project of making things, one piece at a time, but you write from who you are and what you care about and what true voice is yours and from leaving all the false voices and wrong notes behind, and so underneath the task of writing a particular piece is the general one of making a self who can make the work you are mean
... See more- Never be boring. Be ridiculous. Absurd. But never be boring.
- Success is something that you attract, not something that you try to chase or catch.
From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es1wSHREWiI. I think if you replace “success” with “happiness”, “meaning”, or “love” the statement similarly applies.
- If all you did this year was survive, then you did enough. Sometimes, that's all we can do.
Paraphrased from Reddit
- You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.
From: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The only sensible path forward is to learn to accept the brokenness of human life, to develop resilience in the face of its petty cruelties, and to learn to live with yourself.
From the "Can You Imagine?" zine