Sparks 👁️

I’ve come to learn that I never want to sacrifice the aliveness of the present moment in service of a fantasy.

“When we are deprived of green, of plants, of trees, most of us (though evidently not all of us) succumb to a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological or neurochemical malady, until one day we find ourselves in a garden or park or countryside and feel the oppression vanish as if by magic.”

➪ Robert Harrison

Just so you know–

everything in the entire

universe is always about love.

And when it is not about love,

it’s about the absence of love.

Hope this makes sense.

– Unknown

the Overlord Effect—a Godlike attitude emerging from a feeling that we have mastered the universe and colonized space.

“Our economy isn’t one that produces things to be used, but things that increase usage,”

That is, we’ve traded our craftsmenship for management. We now are less immersed in the exact pieces we’re putting together and more interested in the outcome of the work. To us, programming has now become a means to an end, instead of an end in itself.

One of the hardest and loneliest battles you’ll have to fight as you work to build the life you want is maintaining unwavering self belief that you will make it despite having *nothing* to show for it over a 2-3 year period before you see “overnight” success. You’ll feel like an imposter telling others what you’re building and who you believe you’l... See more