On Existence

play is the highest form of research

@uxblake Because "do marketing" isn't a thing. We dreamed of writing, drawing, talking, measuring, competing, playing, building, coding, critiquing, sharing, building communities. Marketing lets us do and be all the things we wanted, just under the Capitalist regime that owns us.

And that hurry comes from seeing wealth and achievement as cures for my own feelings of inadequacy. But hurry and presence are incompatible. By definition, you can’t give somebody your undivided attention if you’re thinking about something else and all my worst mistakes come from being in a hurry. Given the shortness of life, how can I live efficie

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What would happen, though, if we remembered Jesus in the wilderness being tempted yet victorious? Or Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane suffering yet enduring? Or Jesus in the synagogue being misunderstood but not shrinking? Or Jesus being reviled but not returning it? Or Jesus being betrayed, being tired, being righteously angry, unfairly tried, ab

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Though we yearn for clarity, the universe whispers caution. If you listen closely to those who’ve made it, you’ll find what many of them want most is to return to the unknown. Kurt Cobain said he wished he could’ve stayed forever in the moment right before Nirvana got big. Virgil Abloh believed no piece mattered more than having the freedom to make... See more

“I succumbed,” she said. “I stopped denying the wounds and felt them, felt their width and breadth. Pain can be clarifying. If you are able to feel it...the pain itself will tell you what to do.”

I looked out of the window, feeling disappointed and empty. This was not the answer I had come for. I wanted something else, some other formula or techniqu

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