convenience culture
Working toward a goal, a project, a dream – it requires real dedication. It’s inconvenient. It’s uncomfortable. It’s a lot of sitting in silence. It’s having uninspired days. But it’s also being struck with creativity in the middle of the night. It’s the rush of your fingers flying across the keyboard, trying to keep up with the ideas racing... See more
discomfort is the price you pay for a fulfilling life
One key takeaway from this book is that living abundantly requires making time and overcoming the fear of not being good enough.
discomfort is the price you pay for a fulfilling life
the book is Big Magic: creative living beyond fear by elizabeth Gilbert
there’s an old video by Rachel Nguyen where she shares lessons or a list of things that “aren’t chic”. i highly enjoyed it, but one thing in it stuck with me to this day: “convenience isn’t chic”. i remember feeling very against it when I first watched it, and so I watched it again and still felt a certain way about it. today, I agree with her
... See moreLove it! I firmly believe in building little inconveniences into our lives (for example, I turned off all the predictive/corrective settings on my messaging app, and now it takes me twice as long to text people). With everything being so easy, if we don’t intentionally make things harder, we’ll crumble at the slightest provocation.
Rosalind Stanleysubstack.comconvenience, community, solitude and capitalism.
The Art of Inconvenience.” The list includes:
- Tea kettles
- Record players
- Moka pots
- Bookstores
- Thrifting
- Polaroids
- High heels
- Magazines
discomfort is the price you pay for a fulfilling life
Little things I do to keep my brain sharp instead of relying on AI to think for me:
Memorize verification codes instead of copying/pasting them.
Give myself at least an hour to come up with the name of something I can’t remember before Googling it. I usually come to the answer on my... See more
Kolina Cicerosubstack.com