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There is beauty in something well-made. The fine fit of a tailored suit. The delicate stitching of a vibrant rug. The mechanical elegance of a well-tuned watch, ticking silently. The same aesthetic laws that govern these objects – and innumerable others – apply to the business world, too. There is such a thing as a beautiful, elegant business. Not... See more
Mario Gabriele • Modern Meditations: Danny Rimer
there’s a specific kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing too much, but from thinking too much while doing very little.
milk and cookies • a guide to emotional hygiene for overthinkers
In some basic sense, having to articulate a vision for something is a useful mechanism for raising our collective aspiration. It shifts our attention away from merely cataloging today’s deficiencies (which can be a very useful exercise, but often conversations get stuck here) and shifts our attention towards imagining what could be possible.
What virtue is undersupplied today?
"The shortest answer is doing the thing." - Ernest Hemingway
Stop talking about the thing. Stop asking about the thing. Stop gathering more information about the thing.
Just do the thing.
Stop talking about the thing. Stop asking about the thing. Stop gathering more information about the thing.
Just do the thing.
ghosting while drawing, hmm… unlearning so much in the night!
here it is like, to do something well, anything physical at least, your mind has to teach your body how to do it before doing it. it’s weird to me that your mind can know before your body does 🙂 https://t.co/H3MLULbEGC
Hidden in the cynicism of innovation is certainly the despair that nothing further will happen. But innovating means to behave as though lots of things happened, and to make them happen. Through innovation, the will affirms its hegemony over time… The avant-gardist task remains that of undoing the presumption of the mind with respect to time.
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... See moreA question worth asking:
When there is so much on the web, it is easy to fall prey to the impression that this has been done before when you come up with an idea. When this happens, ask: ‘What is my take on this?’
When there is so much on the web, it is easy to fall prey to the impression that this has been done before when you come up with an idea. When this happens, ask: ‘What is my take on this?’
look for cool people first and cool things later