Choose better

The suffering embedded in our civilization, obscured behind the glass screens of our devices, has become an integral part of our reality. If we fail to accept this truth, we cannot progress. To move forward, we need a deeper understanding of how we conceive the world – that the quality of our being is reflected in the quality of our actions and how

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Arguments for Smallness

One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.

Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.

Alex Tan • #032 Peeling Back

Confidence is directly linked to an understanding of what you believe in, your convictions. And that takes time and it takes some real life testing of your beliefs when they’re threatened. It also takes intellect to find the words to express them or the courage to enact them. Sometimes just being able to see and state the obvious can keep us on the

I think the root of the problem is the globalization of all problems.

Now, it feels like anything bad that happens anywhere in the world is somehow relevant to me and my responsibility. It’s like, I’m not allowed to be happy as long as someone, somewhere, is having a bad time.

Especially with global problems, it’s like, how are you allowed to smile

On being at ease, by Amy Smilovic. Applies to style and anything else in life.

When did personal style become so…much….more?

“The principles I created were built as guardrails, not an endeavor to re-write the rules of fashion but rather just a tracing back of when it was that I simply felt most at ease… For me, ease meant the erasure of a sense of

To be successful (just my views only here) you will need to:

Know who you are, what you want to say. You need to say it verbally and visually with clarity, and when you fuck up (because you will) you need to be able to explain why it happened and learn from it and move on. Quickly. People will forgive you because you are human. Human is good.

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To survive and thrive you need to have the conviction to create things your are proud of with people you love and in a way that allows you to have a meaningful life however you determine that. Anything more than that is not just “bonus,” it can actually lead to your undoing. I don’t mean financial ruin, I mean that you may loose that independence

“We design type for ourselves and how we want to use it,” says Thierry, who notes that their typefaces usually take two to three years to develop. “We are blissfully unaware of trends, and we rarely try to copy historical sources. We try to find a conceptual frame that’s interesting to us.”

Note to self: beautiful things require time.

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