find new patterns to be new
it discourages a certain form of dilettantism—peering into an adjacent field that you don’t have the “right” background for, using techniques you aren’t “qualified” to be doing, introducing references and sources that are nontraditional and even looked down upon in your primary field. Research as a leisure activity isn’t constrained by these
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." – Nick Sleep quoting William James
I don’t what to do? How should I choose on what to do next?
Follow your innate curiosity. Paul Graham → Curiosity is the best guide. Your curiosity never lies and knows what’s worth paying attention to.
Related to isabel mind min talking about your heart and your brain that your heart will take in you direction your logical brain can’t
And similar to leland maschemeyer of and diagram of returning to the center. Follow the thread and bring it back to the center
both are true: I hold a lot of conflicting beliefs, and have become happier the longer I’ve sat with them and realized that internal conflicts are a fact of life.
In The Bell Jar, Plath writes (bolding mine):
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and... See more
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and... See more
let's invert the way to construct a portfolio the other way to construct a
portfolio that's different from how other people do it is to invert and start at 100% waiting and work down
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
The best design work rarely starts with order. It starts with questions, with play, with a lot of mess. We need tools that make room for that. Because if everything is neatly aligned from the beginning, we may never discover what lies just outside the grid.
When Figma Starts Designing Us / Design Systems International
Don’t buy into the VC hype on this one. There will not be one tool to serve new internet-first communities.