language library
environmental psychology
Esther Sternberg • Esther Sternberg — The Science of Healing Places | The On Being Project
Desire Infrastructure
I'm playing on the term "desire paths" here, the paths that show up where people actually want to walk, not just where the planners of sidewalks and roads want them to walk.
I'm playing on the term "desire paths" here, the paths that show up where people actually want to walk, not just where the planners of sidewalks and roads want them to walk.
River Kenna • Soul-Making Productivity: A Process Manifesto
interested in big things, and happy in small ways
3-2-1: How to connect with others, what causes old age, and the recipe for success
Generative Engagement, as a model, is a way of thinking about how you make moment-by-moment choices to interact with others to create generative space between you. It asks that you consider three conditions* in your interactions to shape patterns of generative engagement.
- You stand together, sharing identity. You come together, across your
Generative Engagement
Write little phrases that will “open a door to a scene”: Often, we can’t see our entire project in its full form, but we can see little pieces of it. A curtain moving in the morning light, for example. A man sneaking around a house. Jotting down these little hints “open a door” for your future writer-self.
Toni Morrison's Research Notes for Beloved
growing around the grief
Anne Helen Petersen • The Glorious Return of ADVICE TIME
satisficing: abandoning the quest for the ideal in favor of the good-enough
David Roberts • The medium chill
present-moment enthusiast