shifting perspectives
things that make you change the way you see something
by sari and · updated 10d ago
shifting perspectives
- Donald Trump is an uncannily accommodating vessel for projection, good and ill. It occurs as something of a cosmic joke that his last name is “Trump,” which is the Joker in a deck of cards, a wild card, the card that can be any card. So it is that Donald Trump can be any character, whatever people hold him to be. This serves both to elevate him and... See more
from Shades of Many Colors by Charles Eisenstein
rob hardy added 10d ago
“Rough layouts sell the idea better than polished ones. If you show a highly polished computer layout, the client will focus on the execution not the idea. Show a scribble. Explain it. Talk through it. Involve your client. Let them use their imagination.”
sari added 16d ago
“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”
-Charles Bukowski
rob hardy added 24d ago
- rationality is a method of dealing with uncertainty by devouring information and making simplifying assumptions about the outside world until you can convince yourself that you understand it
from Tweet by hinterlander
rob hardy added 1mo ago
Supritha S added 2mo ago
“We’re pretty good at allowing our incorrect certainties to slowly fade into the background, without a crisis or reckoning. We gradually move on, now even more certain about the other things we’re certain of.
Resilience can be found by holding onto our certainties just a little less tightly. One way to do that is to remember just how often the old ones fade away.”
Consider one more possibility: that the people who seem to slow us down and hold us back are actually preventing things from happening too fast. Imagine that the evolution of your life or our culture is like a pregnancy: It needs to reach its full term. Just as a child isn’t ready to be born after five months of gestation, the New Earth we’re creat
... See morefrom Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia by Rob Brezsny
rob hardy added 2mo ago
rob hardy added 2mo ago
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.
rob hardy added 2mo ago