Ideas I want to write about
It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.”
Never underestimate the importance of having fun.
Randy Rausch
beautiful things don't ask for attention
From Zach Duenow for WARC - Strategy Needs an Anima
There’s this guy who is sailing across the ocean, and he’s stuck in the doldrums in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. No wind to move him through it, just his tiny vessel and thousands of miles of ocean on all sides. He looks into his phone’s front facing camera, smiles and takes in the stillness of his surroundings. Naturally, this is all captured
... See moreLegacy 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 moreJason Fried on company culture:
"You have to find the nature of things. That's the thing I've found to be the most useful tool in anything: trying to understand the true nature of an experience, place, or thing and rolling with the nature.
Any time you go against the true nature of something, you're just battling unnecessarily.
So yeah, figure it
... See moreThe history of America is the history of convulsions and periods of rupture, followed by creativity and periods of repair. We’ve lived through the rupture; now, Times readers, let’s do the repair.