aiming for resonance
You can’t try to resonate. Ultimately, resonance is beyond us. Like happiness, it can’t be a goal.
🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You
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.
In early interviews with Whaley, he often talked about the internet being the magic ingredient to MSCHF: “Life is too short and the internet is too big to not make what you want.”
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
Is it possible that we must be passive to experience resonance? Do we only hear those loud, clear, deep, and continuing sounds—perhaps the heartbeat of the universe—when we forfeit control and let the wind blow us where it may? Does our grammar know more about the world than we do—does it embody wisdom that eludes the modern mind?
🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You
Big lesson I learned last year: If I'm attached to the outcome, I'm not coming from enoughness. I'm hoping that the outcome will make me enough. I know I'm coming from enoughness when I'm doing what brings me joy and I'm able to surrender to whatever wants to unfold as a result.
David Spinkssubstack.comWhen pursuing a 1-of-1 vision, you aren’t going to be the most popular or celebrated person. You’re going to be an oddity that the most in-the-know people — who are especially aware of social status and trends — will dismiss. But even though these cultural influencers shape the opinions of others (you pay attention to them, after all), they are not
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