Beauty

The tough thing about getting diagnosed with something later in life is that it makes you question everything that came before it.

To be ludic is not to be ludicrous.

The only thing “free” about so-called free time is that it doesn’t cost the boss anything.

To take only one Roman example, Cicero said that “whoever gives his labor for money sells himself and puts himself in the rank of slaves.”

performative displays of expertise

It was my favorite way to escape until I stopped wanting to escape and I wanted to build a world around myself that I don’t need to escape from.

“The best way to be superhuman is to do things that you love with other people who love them, too.” - Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

The better we know ourselves, the better we’re able to design systems, technologies, lenses that intentionally empower our lights vs. blindly perpetuate our shadows.”

All I can control is how present, open, and accepting I am to what is happening now.