Dead week approacheth!
It’s no coincidence that we keep grappling with the language for how to cultivate a good and productive life (witness the successive manias for wellness in the form of hygge, Marie Kondo, tech, freedom from tech). We all struggle daily with the balance of work and play. Both are essential to a life full of meaning. Fallow time, when practiced the r
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We might have periods of furious output; to get there, we require periods of faithful input. With input, there’s a restoration of fertile, vibrant thinking. You might need a monthlong fallow after a big project. Or maybe it’s two weeks. You might even do it in a minor way — a half-day mini-sabbatical, say, to achieve what the Harvard psychologist S
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First
Remember: doing experience design well — making beautiful, wondrous, kind, breathtaking things, requires...you.
You, specifically.
Your weird, full, curious brain and tender little inside self. It wants for emergence and energy and is hungry to be inspired.
And those things need the fallow seasons. The spaces of nothingness and slugtime and dark... See more
Remember: doing experience design well — making beautiful, wondrous, kind, breathtaking things, requires...you.
You, specifically.
Your weird, full, curious brain and tender little inside self. It wants for emergence and energy and is hungry to be inspired.
And those things need the fallow seasons. The spaces of nothingness and slugtime and dark... See more
Time for the dark
