Ideas I want to write about
brand entropy
Legacy isn’t something to keep hermetically sealed in a box, or to place on a shelf or trophy case, only removing it to show off when we have guests over. Look at this legacy. Pretty cool huh?
No. Fuck that. Legacy is a seed you plant into the dirt. You water it, give it sunlight, you let it grow. It is not an artifact but a living organism. Alive
... See moreToo Many Places Are STERILE and TORCHED — Let’s Make Them COOL and FUNKY
Jonah & Erinblackbirdspyplane.comThe just use of imagination is not just conceptual. It must be enacted. Without this enactment, a re-envisioning is relegated to the realm of fiction and future. The just use of imagination is applicable (in that is must be applied), and employed in our current realities in service of justice and equality RIGHT NOW, now later. John Lennon’s “Imagin
... See moreToday’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all destination and no journey. But climbing a mountain is different from taking the tram to the top, even if you end up at the same place. We are becoming people who care mainly or only about outcomes. We ar
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Why everyone is a DJ now
Portfolio careers are on the rise and to me this makes perfect sense, because they’re more reflective of the way humans are built. We’re multi-dimensional, multi-faceted, multi-passionate beings, so surely our work should be multi-dimensional, multi-faceted and speak to our multiple passions.
Many of us are realising that we don’t want “traditional... See more
Many of us are realising that we don’t want “traditional... See more
Instead, I’d say that what I was looking for throughout my childhood and adolescence and young adulthood was what Romain Rolland called “oceanic feeling” in a letter to Freud in 1927: “the sensation of eternity, of ‘being at one with the external world as a whole.’” In other words, I was looking for the presence of God. The feeling, not the narrati... See more
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