Brandon Dang
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Brandon Dang
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.
My friend, the project is the way.
The Project Is the Way
But then, somehow, it got in.
No. Not got in. That's the wrong way of putting it. Music doesn't get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn't necessarily know you had inside you, and runs around waking them all up. A rebirth of sorts.
There was such a yearning and energy to it. I closed my
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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
Texts as Toys
But when Rosa reaches for the perfect adjective to describe this feeling of both acting on the world and being acted on by it, engaging with it boldly yet never knowing how it will respond–and the feelings of warmth and fulfillment that result–the term he chooses is anschmiegsamen. What anschmiegsamen means in English–and this is the word that
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your relationship with the divine always takes the shape of your relational patterns in general.
Sabbath and the Art of Rest
open.spotify.comI 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.