Brandon Dang
@bdang
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
Texts as Toys
Years of exec coaching at companies like Apple, Alphabet, and OpenAI condensed into 5 principles If you want to bring this into your company, try this 5-step process: 1. Take...
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In the era of the never-ending playlist, when tunes are almost too algorithmically available, these writers remind that a regular appointment of conscious listening, playing or singing can be better than a visit to the clinic.
How the Sound of Music Can Be Healing. Literally.
Sabbath and the Art of Rest
open.spotify.comThere is a network of people passionately working on interesting things but when I step back a bit there isn’t a coherent story tying things together other than a broad FAFO / make bets on probabilistic outcomes energy. While there is widespread support with people rooting for each other, something I’ve appreciated after hibernating in Asia, it’s... See more
Paul Millerd • Laptop Man & New Remote Realities | #280
People want to support each other, but they’re isnt the structure to actually support in a meaningful way besides just like and follow
Of this there can be no question — creative work requires a loyalty as complete as the loyalty of water to the force of gravity. A person trudging through the wilderness of creation who does not know this — who does not swallow this — is lost. He who does not crave that roofless place eternity should stay at home. Such a person is perfectly worthy,... See more
Mary Oliver • Mary Oliver: The Artist’s Task
Dane Reynolds is a surfer who made a company just to fund making surf videos of him and his friends. He cares more about storytelling and creating culture around his local surf scene than scaling a business and it shows
The universe is looking for collaborators, baby. It’s a universe that is becoming and it needs help. And it wants to work with you. It wants to be made. And a creative life is a life where you routinely choose the path of curiosity over the path of fear. Not like twice or three times or four times, but daily. Systematically. It becomes your habit... See more