At The Table With: Taylor Sterling (+ a giveaway!)
In lieu of food, at each setting was a Zeldin invention called the “Conversation Menu” that led the pairs through six “courses” of talk. Under the heading of “Starters” were questions like “How have your priorities changed over the years?” and “How have your background and experience limited or favoured you?” Under “Soups” was an invitation to ask,
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Your assignment, should you choose to play:
What are you making right now? A vacation? A workshop? A 5-year-old’s birthday party? A retirement send-off? A midnight book exchange? A bathroom?
Within whatever it is, how can you design for quality time? How might you make choices that help people be with ?
Olivia Vagelos • Let's Hang Out
Si mistica: a threshold you can taste
... See more“Mistakes are invitations. The table is a threshold. Context... is cuisine.”
In a conversation with ChatGPT (aka Monday, my sarcastic culinary-minded assistant), a simple typo — avocado → advocate — opened more than just a laugh. It opened a door.
That’s how Si mistica was born: a living project in Umbria, Italy,
Two questions that work really well here are: • If we came back in five years to have this conversation again, what would be different? • If you could build your ideal
Steve Portigal • Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights
I ask her question after question while considering how wonderful it would be if the organizers would just place our books on the table, so we could get to know each other by reading silently.
Glennon Doyle • Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living: THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Any writer will be asked, Why? Why write; why write this book; what made you do it. If I showed you a photograph of my parents, I think you’d understand.