aiming for resonance
by Keely Adler · updated 3mo ago
aiming for resonance
you must be able to live inside of your vision in such a way that you can communicate its emotional essence, its core truth, to the immediate world around you.
from When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1 by Yancey Strickler
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
I understand the argument for shipping early and often. But I also believe that we should aspire to build lovable products, not viable products. And lovable products take time to build and polish.
from Things I'm Thinking About by the startupy newsletter
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
I appreciated Nvidia’s founder talking the other week about what it means to work in a zero billion dollar industry. It means really believing in something no one else can see, but trusting that if you do your part eventually others will
from When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1 by Yancey Strickler
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
On people who are INTO it:
Have you ever had the experience, Jerry asks, where you look at something and go, ‘Wow, whoever made that—they were INTO it!’? “That’s what I care about. That’s all I care about. I don’t care about traits or techniques, I don’t care what you do or how you do it—I just want to see people and talk to people and be around peo
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- You can’t try to resonate. Ultimately, resonance is beyond us. Like happiness, it can’t be a goal.
from 🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
hmm. i think it can be a goal, but it’s not one you go about directly. it’s one you go about by creating something that speaks to /you/ and in doing so, finds its people.
- The thing about resonance? It’s unpredictable. A highly anticipated Broadway musical, written by a star composer, can sputter at the box office and become the flop of the season. An obscure single from an unknown artist can top the Billboard chart out of nowhere. A Czech writer who has been dead a century can become the hero of generation TikTok. W... See more
from 🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
- Quantitative indicators — faulty proxies for qualitative truths — are our primary measure of success, and considerations of life beyond our own have, until now, been largely absent from our day-to-day decision making. What magic might unfold if we just adjust our aperture? And what’s at risk if we don’t?
from Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
GDP sees Wikipedia as possibly having a negative value. If there wasn’t Wikipedia people would still buy encyclopedias. And all those volunteer Wikipedia editors could do something really valuable with their time, like work for money.
from This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World by Yancey Strickler
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
- I can’t help but think of the I-resonate-with trend as a cry for help dressed up in terrible grammar. As the anthropocene gives way to the life-centered economy, we humans feel thrust from our thrones. We want to return to being the subject of the sentence, the active voice, the element in command. When something resonates with us, we are relegated... See more
from 🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You
Keely Adler added 4mo ago