how to be
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
I aspire to Isak Dinesen’s way: work a little every day, without hope and without despair. What a way to live! To make! To be!

5 year old anthem
The idea of appearing to do something - you get the same level of satisfaction if you know that someone believes you’re accomplishing something as you do from actually accomplishing something and so it’s easy to get trapped in that loop and so you never get there because you’re too busy sharing that you’re getting somewhere instead of actually doin... See more
“Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. If you get to my age in l... See more
Collab Fund • Smart Things I’ve Read Lately
The only productive way to answer ‘What should I do now?’ is to first tackle the question of ‘Who should I become?'
Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living
This disconnect between culturally mandated politics and the actual demonstrated preferences of most Americans has created an enormous reserve of unmet needs—and a generational opportunity. Build new things! Create great art! Understand and accept that sensory information is the brain’s food, and that Silicon Valley is systematically starving us of... See more
whoaa from Tablet Magazine - on getting over flatness and culture politics.
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world. John Steinbeck.