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this morning i heard @OortCloudAtlas reframe sadness in a way that loosened a knot i didn't know i had in my chest. he said,
"usually we're sad about something difficult that happened but if we look behind that, it's because we wish something good had happened
it's rly a wish… Show more
"usually we're sad about something difficult that happened but if we look behind that, it's because we wish something good had happened”
sadness is one of our most beautiful treasures because it's our compassionate heart expressing itself
People early in their career should learn from computer science: meander some in your walk (especially early on), randomly drop yourself into new parts of the terrain, and when you find the highest hill, don’t waste any more time on the current hill no matter how much better the next step up might appear .
cdixon.org • Cdixon | Climbing the Wrong Hill
The Economist has a great article on why many of Europe’s top companies are Nordic.
The region has 0.3% of world’s population (~27m) but contributes 1% of GDP.
Top names include:
▫️LEGO (Denmark): World’s top toy maker by revenue.
▫️IKEA (Sweden):... See more
I read a David Lynch book about meditation when I was like 16, and I didn’t realize how influential it was until I got older and started to realize that I was doing the technique he talks about automatically. It was called Catching the Big Fish or something, but the idea is, you close your eyes and let all the ideas go through your head. You don’t... See more
The Creative Independent • On navigating the tension between physical and digital realms
Take the humble “document” as an example. For decades, document editing programs like word processors effectively emulated a printed sheet of paper, onto which the user typed with an emulated typewriter. Other software tools like spreadsheets did better, managing to escape complete skeuomorphism in favor of an infinite canvas. Notion is another... See more
Linus Lee • How we create | linus.coffee
while i agree with notion’s approach to documents — the infinite length document w/o pages. i think skeuomorphic design makes it easy for new users to reason across old and new media (i.e. from paper to word doc). only after they are comfortable with that can you progress to designs that are native to the new medium.
The Red Wings Striker combat robot dog, developed by China, represents a breakthrough in unmanned warfare. Equipped with micro rockets https://t.co/WHfYHtDmY4
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Apart from a very limited amount of state sponsorship, it was usually the prospect of commercial gain or of new lands for settlement which funded exploration – a misleading term, which usually signified the ‘mapping’ of existing trade paths through local informants. But the propulsion of economic or demographic need was spasmodic at best.