When Things Take Shape
If an idea would have a life-cycle i would say: first it manifests as rather abstract feeling, Guided by that feeling you go on search for a form that the feeling can be born into. Once you find a matching shape–the magic happens.
poetic web: unfolding spiral
Change takes time. Start by choosing a direction to go toward. If you take one step in that direction each day, you'll get to the finish line in due time.
Abby Covert • How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody
If you cycle through this feedback loop ferociously for ten years, you will end up with a well-designed life. It will not look like you imagined it would. It will have unfolded around you, and you will struggle to wrap your head around how you ended up where you did.
You will have lost track of all the experiments and insights that led you to a fit.
Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses
Amy Whitaker • 1 highlight
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And when it comes to our long-term best-work projects, we often can’t see where the projects are going to take us in advance; we’ll be creating new realities and possibilities that we simply can’t see because they don’t presently exist.