Marzana Alam
@cherryreddivini
Marzana Alam
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choose wisely
@theuniverse_calling 🪐
instagram.comFor I have a single definition of success: you look in the mirror every evening, and wonder if you disappoint the person you were at 18, right before the age when people start getting corrupted by life. Let him or her be the only judge; not your reputation, not your wealth, not your standing in the community, not the decorations on your lapel. If... See more
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Commencement Address, American University in Beirut
if you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. morals have aesthetic criteria.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
daisy.substack.comwits
none of us really know what we’re doing?
Sometimes it’s searching for signs. Sometime it’s noticing what’s right in front of you. Sometimes the universe conspires.
Sometimes it’s searching for signs. Sometime it’s noticing what’s right in front of you. Sometimes the universe conspires.
Andy Dunn • What Do You Do When You Don't Know What To Do?
If you learn to listen to things you’ve already heard, you will listen to things you’ve never heard
Perhaps it’s more helpful to think of collecting books like collecting wine: you pick up novels you know you will enjoy at some time in the future. That time might be right now, or it might be next year. Like a bottle of Sancerre, you’ll bring it down off the shelf at the perfect moment, when you’ll enjoy it most. That’s okay, even encouraged,... See more
I’m no longer content to ask, “What do you think about X?” Instead, I ask, “How did you come to believe X?”
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Honour your creativity
In many ways, I feel fortunate that we built Poolsuite, Vacation® and other projects before AI became as accessible as it is now. That time gave me a runway to hone the skill of being creative. But the other day, I found myself slipping into a terrible new habit, and turning to ChatGPT before I even gave my brain 30 seconds to... See more
In many ways, I feel fortunate that we built Poolsuite, Vacation® and other projects before AI became as accessible as it is now. That time gave me a runway to hone the skill of being creative. But the other day, I found myself slipping into a terrible new habit, and turning to ChatGPT before I even gave my brain 30 seconds to... See more