Living ethically
How to live, work, stay calm, and enjoy myself without destroying the world
Living ethically
The humanities are our most treasured—and useless—“special skills.” And it is their very uselessness—their determination to remain uncorrupted by models of efficiency and optimization—that is their saving grace.
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
My answer to her was simple: Begin. Rekindle your creative craft for a few moments every day. Don’t worry about the rest right now; simply sit down and make something.
Chase Jarvis • Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life
It was Descartes, too, who formed the project of a School of Arts and Crafts, where each artisan would learn fully to understand the theoretical bases of his own craft; he thus showed himself to be more socialist, in the matter of culture, than all Marx’s disciples
Simone Weil • Oppression and Liberty
When you’re practicing Illuminationism, you’re offering a gaze that says, “I want to get to know you and be known by you.” It’s a gaze that positively answers the question everybody is unconsciously asking themselves when they meet you: “Am I a person to you? Do you care about me? Am I a priority for you?” The answers to those questions are
... See moreDavid Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
substack, state of the culture, ted
8 practical ways to make money with open-source projects.
1) Premium code: (Open-Core)
The open core model is a business strategy where you offer most of your code as free and open source.
However, an add-on commercial version is released as proprietary software.
Example: Dragula Pro by Zeno Rocha -($250K in 2.5 years )
2) Open SaaS:
Open SaaS allows... See more
1) Premium code: (Open-Core)
The open core model is a business strategy where you offer most of your code as free and open source.
However, an add-on commercial version is released as proprietary software.
Example: Dragula Pro by Zeno Rocha -($250K in 2.5 years )
2) Open SaaS:
Open SaaS allows... See more
Sachin Neravath on LinkedIn: I made $100k in revenue from an open-source JavaScript library in 14…
Culture, he announced defiantly, had become the new counterculture.
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
To face the storm you must learn to respond to it rather than react to it.
Patti Henry • The Emotionally Unavailable Man
Slow media promote Monotasking . Slow Media cannot be consumed casually, but provoke the full concentration of their users. As with the production of a good meal, which demands the full attention of all senses by the cook and his guests, Slow Media can only be consumed with pleasure in focused alertness.