Ash McGrath
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Writer, author, AI optimist 🌈 📚 I publish bi-weekly essays about creativity, AI, and other weird corners of humanity. Subscribe to the newsletter: thought-partner.kit.com
Ash McGrath
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
Erin Glasstwitter.comIn hindsight, my energy was so wrapped up in trying to generate all the momentum upfront that it didn’t occur to me that momentum can only happen when a thing is in motion. Thinking about answering the call wasn’t enough. I had to pick up the phone and trust that I’d find momentum on the other end of the line.
Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
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Sari Azout’s Building A Library
I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live... See more
Rainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet
What you should not do, I think, is worry about the opinion of anyone beyond your friends. You shouldn't worry about prestige. Prestige is the opinion of the rest of the world. When you can ask the opinions of people whose judgement you respect, what does it add to consider the opinions of people you don't even know? [4]
This is easy advice to give.
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you
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A parent who set an example of loving their work might help their kids more than an expensive house. [3]
I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live... See more
Maria Popova • Live the Questions: Rilke on Embracing Uncertainty and Doubt as a Stabilizing Force
The test of whether people love what they do is whether they'd do it even if they weren't paid for it — even if they had to work at another job to make a living.
-Paul Graham, Do What You Love