Ideas I want to write about
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 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 moreIt 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.”
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... See more
Many of us are realising that we don’t want... See more
Today’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 are at risk of
... See moreTim Wu • Opinion | The Tyranny of Convenience - The New York Times
“Releasing art into the world becomes easier when we remember that each piece can never be a total reflection of us, only a reflection of who we are in this moment. If we wait, it’s no longer today’s reflection. In a year, we may be guided to create a piece that looks nothing like it. There is a timeliness to the work. The passing of seasons could
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Miles Davis // "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself."
instagram.combeautiful things don't ask for attention