don't forget, always remember
reminders for me and for you.
don't forget, always remember
One of the most dangerous feelings in the world is when you encounter a conceptual framework that maps onto your experience and it just seems to “click”
Tyler Altermanx.comSometimes maybe it’s best, in art and writing, to be as dumb as possible, follow the joy, because at the very least that's real. And there, you’ve taken the first step towards the truth.
Making out and eating pizza with J.Crew
Sam Altman • What I Wish Someone Had Told Me
“Ease” isn’t the same as “easy.”
In fact, they’re often at odds.
Easy work is hardly worth our effort. It can deaden us instead of giving us the chance to bring our best selves to life.
Ease, on the other hand, is the feeling of doing something worthwhile, and doing it well.
Of course, the stories you tell yourself are useless if you don’t take action. “No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess,” the psychologist William James wrote, no matter how good one’s stories may be, “if one [does not] act, one’s life may remain entirely unaffected for the better.” One’s life, as James puts it, “is an aggregate of
... See moreMany want to be chefs but aren’t willing to be line cooks first. It’s not glamorous work, but it builds design muscles, muscles that you’ll need in order to get better and advance to the next step.
Dan Mall • “Stealing Your Way to Original Designs,” an article by Dan Mall
All this is to say is that for design, as for other fields, the road to greatness is often paved with obsession—an immoderate, unjustifiable surplus of care. Doing things that no-one asked for with a love that no-one could reasonably expect.
Ben Strak • Nobody asked for this
