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Bronwyn
If you consider yourself a technologist, here’s your imperative: build things that are unabashedly, beautifully tangled into all else in life — people and relationships, politics, emotion and pain, understanding or the lack thereof, being alone, being together, homesickness, adventure, victory, loss. Build things that come alive, and drag... See more
Create things that come alive
“The anditode to doom is curiosity.”
-Ezra Klein
One sentence puzzles me: The world was constantly speaking to Ancient Man. I do not understand why this sentence is in the past tense. The World still speaks to me every day.
Susanna Clarke • Piranesi
"The tattered cloak of the beggar will bear him up like the rayed plumes of the angels. But the kings in their heavy gold and the proud in their robes of purple will all of their nature sink downwards, for pride cannot rise to levity or levitation. Pride is the downward drag of all things into an easy solemnity. One "settles down" into a sort of... See more
roobzx.comI suppose this is what I mean when I say we cannot possibly know what will manifest in our lives. We live and have experiences and leave people we love and get left by them. People we thought would be with us forever aren’t and people we didn’t know would come into our lives do. Our work here is to keep faith with that, to put it in a box and wait.
... See moreCheryl Strayed • Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
But that’s the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and worth the doing.”
Ray Bradbury • Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
I cannot express how deeply this hit me. Sheesh.
[by Francesca Tighinean]
Rivki Rabinowitzsubstack.com“If your world is not enchanted, you’re not paying attention.”
Alex Dobrenko` • The Bucket Theory of Creativity
Each morning, instead of becoming frazzled and confused in the face of bad news and disappointments, remember to treat your body like a vast universe of cells seeking new ways to feel electric and alive, new ways to celebrate beauty and courage, new ways to help the vulnerable, new ways to embrace the sublime.