creative inspirations

more creation, less consumption

It’s a little depressing that these days we mainly use computers to consume fast and react fast. Task management turns us into more productive human machines. Rather conveniently for managers, human machines have higher predictability and lower inherent value – they’re easy to automate, replace, and erase.

Productivity is important, but it’s just... See more

pketh • Productivity vs Insight, Tools for Reflection, and Other Questions Answered

more creation, less consumption

David Perell

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If you don’t actively direct your life and live based on your values, someone else will be directing your life based on their values. So, it’s paramount you identify how you want to live, and unabashedly, live that way. Make a ruckus.

Pompeii: Graffiti, Signs & Electoral Notices

Mark Cartwright worldhistory.org

The Chinese symbol for crisis 危机 is composed of two elements: one signifies danger and the other opportunity.

The advice that's changed my life more and faster than anything: Fail more. It is a dialogue between you and reality that involves breaking down and rebuilding your identity again and again. No overthinking. Iteration,... See more

Jesse James Boyes x.com

1If it frightens you, do it. 2Don't settle. Every time you settle, you get exactly what you settled for. 3Put yourself first. 4No matter what happens, you will handle it. 5Whatever you do, do it 100%. 6If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got. 7You are the only person on this planet responsible for your needs,

Robert Glover • No More Mr. Nice Guy

True freedom means freedom as. True freedom is to feel fully and be alive as love, feeling as this entire moment, opening just as this moment is.

David Deida • Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex

Find the Place You Love. Then Move There.

Arthur Brooks theatlantic.com