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Your Brain as a Zoom Lens
Our brains come preset to look at life up close. Don't forget to zoom out. https://t.co/zdJ5L7VmGF
Focus means head down. Big picture means head up. The more you’re doing of one, the less you’re doing of the other. If you’ve been head-down on a task for too long, lift your head up to make sure you’re going the right way. Don’t do well what you shouldn’t do at all.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
We often think making things for the web is a process of simplifying—the hub, the dashboard, the control panel are all dreams of technology that coalesces, but things have a tendency to diverge into a multiplicity of options. We pile on more tools and technology, each one increasingly nuanced and minor in its critical differences. Clearly, converge... See more
Frank Chimero • Frank Chimero · The Web’s Grain
you are trying to understand or figure out something new, your best bet is to turn off your precision-focused thinking and turn on your “big picture” diffuse mode,