mantras
if you come across an explanation of vulnerability that doesn’t include setting boundaries or being clear on intentions, proceed with caution. Vulnerability for vulnerability’s sake is not effective, useful, or smart.
Brené Brown • Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
― Simone Weil
― Simone Weil
Carissa Potter • How to feel alive again.
Almost everything that is meaningful, beautiful, life-affirming, empowering, transformational, true—it can’t be reached by shortcuts. But what we can do is make the longcuts walkable, put out footbridges and stairs, and a table where the ocean comes into view.
Henrik Karlsson • On Shortcuts and Longcuts
Miles Davis // "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself."
instagram.comI like the term generalist, it’s one of the best descriptions of my career(s) and also a good representation of something I see as vital: being able to understand different domains and translate between them.
Patrick Tanguay • Generalists
She ran her hand over her shorn head again, felt a stirring of pride mixed up with the pressure that was tightening in her like a bolt being turned into place. Her hair was a declaration, not an admission. All things should be declarations, not admissions.
Maggie Shipstead • Great Circle: the dazzling, instant New York Times bestseller
Talking or writing about the things you're interested in is a good way to generate new ideas. When you try to put ideas into words, a missing idea creates a sort of vacuum that draws it out of you. Indeed, there's a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing.