Sparks

“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”

I am so, deeply, truly uninterested in reaction (which is why I don’t read the comments on my public Instagram account). But I am so curious about response: the mysterious sacred moments when we are compelled into action (often unwitnessed by others) or invited into new ways of thinking.

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The problem is, we no longer live solely among those we know well. We're now forced to refine our personalities by the countless eyes of strangers. And this has begun to affect the process by which we develop our identities.

Somebody once said that a good science-fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.