Cultivating Ideas
“Giving the people what they want isn’t nearly as powerful as teaching people what they need. There’s always a shortcut available, a way to be a little more ironic, cheaper, more instantly understandable. There’s the chance to play into our desire to be entertained and distracted regardless of the cost. Most of all, there’s the temptation to encour... See more
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
Seth Godin
Feed your curiosity, but also feed your humanity.
Go live a big, interesting, beautiful life—and bring all of that back to the work.
Go live a big, interesting, beautiful life—and bring all of that back to the work.
The future of creative work is in flux
Chief Creative Officer of Red Antler, on taste
People show much more originality in solving problems than in deciding which problems to solve. Even the smartest can be surprisingly conservative when deciding what to work on. People who’d never dream of being fashionable in any other way get sucked into working on fashionable problems.
Cultivating a State of Mind Where New Ideas Are Born
My site is really a record of my becoming who I am.
On Being • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
Maria Popova
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