Brandon Dang

Another mode, that I haven’t worked with at all, is producing textual hyperobjects that require a bit of software to properly articulate, such as an essay with a UI and a bunch of knobs that allows the reader to dynamically reshape the default text within a parameterized space. A simple example would be a one-page app essay with a few styling... See more

So we sit in indecision. We wait for certainty before we commit. But certainty doesn’t come from thinking about a project. It comes from being inside a project.

My friend, the project is the way.

Deep Okayness is not the feeling that I am awesome all the time. Instead, it is the total banishment of self-loathing. It is the deactivation of the part of my mind that used to attack itself. It’s the closure of the self as an attack surface. It’s the intuitive understanding that I am merely one of the apertures through which the universe... See more

The capacity to get up and walk away from the work is the same capacity that permits you to make meaningful progress in the work, when the time for that arrives.

I could experience the vibrancy of my local coffee shop as just an aesthetic, or I could experience it as a hive of fellow humans buzzing with energy, conversations, and dreams. Even if I have my noise cancelling headphones on, I could choose to tune into this energy as something I am part of and be deeply grateful for that.