Being human
If you want to do great work you have to interface with others—learn what they have figured out, find collaborators who can extend your vision, and other support. The trick is doing this without losing yourself.
"serendipity engine" - consistently creating moments of potential connection and designing a cadence of connection in your life that can lead to unexpected, deeper connections if you're open to them.
Daniel Stillman • Instead of Networking, Build a Serendipity Engine — Daniel Stillman
You aren’t just expressing something within you; you are deliberating outwardly and discovering your likes and dislikes in real time.
Jaya • if you want a sense of self, make something
The term ‘the commons’ has been increasingly used to refer not just to “things” or “assets” (as Silke Helfrich puts its) but more broadly to the “social practices of commoning, acting together, based on principles of sharing, stewarding and producing in common” .
Designing for Transitions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
French philosopher and playwright, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote:
“Existence precedes essence.”
He argues that we’re not born with an inherent purpose, but rather, that we forge it through our choices and actions. The crucial externalization of our values, beliefs, and views mean we are actively existing.
It isn’t just about making something; it is about... See more
“Existence precedes essence.”
He argues that we’re not born with an inherent purpose, but rather, that we forge it through our choices and actions. The crucial externalization of our values, beliefs, and views mean we are actively existing.
It isn’t just about making something; it is about... See more
Jaya • if you want a sense of self, make something
Satisfaction does not come from money, rewards, status or praise; it comes from impressing yourself. Mistaking the former for the latter is a source of enormous misery.
𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝑔𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓁 𝓉𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝓌𝑒 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝑔𝑜𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝒻𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝓌𝑒 𝓉𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝓉 𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓂𝑒𝓇𝒸𝓎…
