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@aronshelton
Designing and navigating various contextual arrangements with an enigmatic sense of hope. #wayfinder
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well-arranged words rearrange reality.
Visakan Veerasamy • Tweet
New Media is opinionated about the internet’s infinite scale . It chooses to reject or play with the internet’s scale, opting to be handmade, limited quantity, or geared towards small groups of people who actively choose to receive it. New Media is not something to be fished from a stream, but a sacred pilgrimage one may embark upon.
Yancey Strickler • Formulary for New Media
The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.
-David Graeber
The danger of living in possibility versus taking action: how embracing limits and failure builds strength and real growth
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I could become an actor. I could become a great novelist. I could become a CEO. I could be Elon Musk II. But the way the world works is you don achieve anything unless you have limits Having limits and hitting that wall and that resistance is what makes you learn is what makes you great is how the human brain functions
And what I mean by that is
... See more“Vibes are like the sun: we know that they exist, but we can't ever look at them directly. Concepts like community, mentorship, love, happiness, culture, education, progress, and paradigms are similarly resistant to hard definitions. Like the sun, we can feel their warmth, see them skittering around the periphery of our vision...but most of us know
... See moreHome - Warm Cookies of the Revolution
warmcookiesoftherevolution.org
Warm Cookies of the Revolution, needn’t say more.
In the new cultural economy, the culture is the product. It is composed of practices, ideas, and discourses. Products are auxiliary, supportive, but not the main event. And most importantly, people now opt into these designed cultures with full knowledge and awareness that these cultures might change who they are. The authenticity-driven culture
... See moreToby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
Part of the magic of an actual book is that the reader ends up understanding. It seeps in, the aha’s are found, not highlighted.