In-Spire
Random stuff I come across
In-Spire
Great article translating Maslows hierarchy of needs to design. 1) Functionality - does it work 2) Reliability: does it work consistently? 3) Usability: Is it easy to use? 4) Proficiency: is it empowering to use? 5) Creativity: aesthetic, creative flourishes, innovation(!)
“In the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die, or the greatest armaments, or sieges of cities.
SIX at 6: The Seemingly Frivolous, Reading A Tongue, Experiencing A Spoon, Authenticating Paintings, The Systematic Choices, and Great Revelations
How you do one thing is how you do everything
Let us blaze new trails. Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art and good writing can be good selling.
What man needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What he needs is not a homeostatic equilibrium, but rather the will to meaning, guiding him toward a future that is yet to be made his own.
- Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (via Max McCoy on youtube)
The Nostalgia Machine
thenostalgiamachine.com
On writing
I would suggest that we all spend some time considering the likelihood that when nothing is happening, something is happening
I’m drawn to the idea of an art of living much more so than to the compulsive search for life hacks, regimens of self-improvement, or self-optimization schemes. These too often feel like a doubling down on the insistence that we can always do more if only we apply the right technique. They also suggest that the path to happiness involves the discov... See more
